Motivational Quotes

Prayer

Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.

- Hemingway, Ernest

Best Quotes about Prayer

If I regard wickedness in my heart the Lord will not hear. [Psalms 66:18]

Bible

Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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.

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

Hippocrates

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

Real Live Preacher

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Temple, Sir William

Take God for your spouse and friend and walk with him continually, and you will not sin and will learn to love, and the things you must do will work out prosperously for you.

John of the Cross, St.

Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us.

Selden, John

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Your prayer must be for a sound mind in a sound body.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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No one can pray well, but those who live well.

Proverb

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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Prayer is a passport to heaven. Your communication with God.

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The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions.

Brault, Robert

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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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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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Hemingway, Ernest

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

Michalski, Stan

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A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

Lessing, Doris

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When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.

Oscar Wilde

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

Bible

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Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

Brooks, Phillips

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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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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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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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All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother. I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

Seneca

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More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.

Twain, Mark

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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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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

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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Tupper, Martin

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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

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When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

Cohen, Leonard

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Prayer is talking with God and telling Him you love Him, conversing with God about all the things that are important in life, both large and small, and being assured that He is listening.

Strait, C. Neil

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Practice in life whatever you pray for and God will give it to you more abundantly.

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

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A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.

Cockburn, Alexander

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.