Motivational Quotes

Prayer

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

- Graham, Ruth

Best Quotes about Prayer

One hour in the execution of justice is worth seventy years of prayer.

Proverb

Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord by ceasing to pray for you, but I will instruct you in the good and right way. [I Samuel 12:23]

Bible

Ask God's blessing on your work, but don't ask him to do it for you.

Robson, Dame Flora

Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.

Gide, Andre

Indeed many things which we shall not be able to discover either by the experiment of works or by the investigations of reason we shall deserve to be taught by importunate prayer, by the revelation of divine inspiration.

Richard of Saint Victor

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

Saint Theresa of Jesus

The fates are not quite obdurate; they have a grim, sardonic way of granting them who supplicate the thing they wanted yesterday.

Montgomery, Roselle Mercier

When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't.

Temple, Sir William

You can pray for someone even if you don't think God exists.

Real Live Preacher

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Heaven grant that the burden you carry may have as easy an exit as it had an entrance. [Prayer To A Pregnant Woman]

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.

Herbert, George

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Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.

Barr, Amelia E.

13.

Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.

Tupper, Martin

14.

Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body.

Juvenal

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Most men pray for power, the strength to do things. Few people pray for love, the quality to be someone.

Foster, Robert D.

18.

It is from prayer that the spirit's victory springs.

Schillerbuch

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Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

Socrates

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A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.

Lessing, Gotthold

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Pray without ceasing. In everything give thanks. [I Thessalonians]

Bible

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Pray for what you want, but work for what you need.

24.

It is good to pray for the repair of mistakes, but praying earlier would keep us from making so many. When puzzled, go to prayer and listen.

Macaulay, J. C.

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The influence of prayer on the human mind and body is as demonstrable as that of secreting glands. Its results can be measured in terms of increased physical buoyancy, greater intellectual vigor, moral stamina, and a deeper understanding of the realities underlying human relationships.

Carrel, Dr. Alex

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When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.

Taylor, Jeremy

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That prayer has great power which a person makes with all his might. It makes a sour heart sweet, a sad heart merry, a poor heart rich, a foolish heart wise, a timid heart brave, a sick heart well, a blind heart full of sight, a cold heart ardent. It draws down the great God into the little heart; it drives the hungry soul up into the fullness of God; it brings together two lovers, God and the soul, in a wondrous place where they speak much of love.

Magheburg, Mechthild of

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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Prayer is not a substitute for work, thinking, watching, suffering, or giving; prayer is a support for all other efforts.

Buttrick, George

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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

31.

If this obstacle is from Thee, Lord, I accept it; but if it is from Satan, I refuse him and all his works in the name of Calvary.

Kuhn, Isobel

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Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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You must pray that the way be long, full of adventures and experiences.

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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Don't put people down, unless it's on your prayer list.

Michalski, Stan

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Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us.

Bernanos, Georges

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We are all weak, finite, simple human beings, standing in the need of prayer. None need it so much as those who think they are strong, those who know it not, but are deluded by self-sufficiency.

Phillips, Harold C.

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Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it.

Taylor, Jeremy

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God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers and thrust the thing we have prayed for in our face, like a gauntlet with a gift in it.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

Gandhi, Mahatma

41.

Do not make prayer a monologue -- make it a conversation.

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Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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When we take one step toward to God, he takes seven steps toward us.

Proverb, Indian

44.

Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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To be sure, this requires effort and love, a careful cultivation of the spiritual life, and a watchful, honest, active oversight of all one's mental attitudes towards things and people. It is not to be learned by world-flight, running away from things, turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, one must learn an inner solitude, where or with whomsoever he may be. He must learn to penetrate things and find God there, to get a strong impression of God firmly fixed on his mind.

Eckhart, Meister

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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes.

Hillesum, Etty

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There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.

Hugo, Victor