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

We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them.

West, Charles C.

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

Juvenal

We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

Seneca

Ask God for what man can give, and you may get it.

Proverb, English

If you can't pray a door open, don't pry it open.

Rader, Lyell

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

Schillerbuch

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

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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The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it.

Josh Billings

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

Foster, Robert D.

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

Proverb

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Herbert, George

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Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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If I told you what it takes to reach the highest high you'd laugh and say nothing that simple, but you've been told many times before messiah's point you to the door though no one's got the guts to leave the temple.

Townsend, Peter

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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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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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Hemingway, Ernest

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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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Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Tupper, Martin

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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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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.

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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 is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God.

Illich, Ivan

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

Bible

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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

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

Temple, Sir William

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

Bible

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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

40.

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

42.

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Hippocrates

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Pray that you will never have to bear all that you are able to endure.

Proverb, Jewish

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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Gandhi, Mahatma