Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Brault, Robert

Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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

Michalski, Stan

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

Cockburn, Alexander

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Proverb, English

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

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

Socrates

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

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The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Illich, Ivan

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The time of business does not with me differ from the time of prayer, and in the noise and clatter of my kitchen, while several persons are at the same time calling for different things, I possess God as if I were upon my knees at the blessed sacrament.

Lawrence, Brother

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

Robson, Dame Flora

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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When a man has done all he can do, still there is a mighty, mysterious agency over which he needs influence to secure success. The one way he can reach it is by prayer.

Conwell, Russel H.

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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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Pray. To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

Bierce, Ambrose

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To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention -- on a landscape, a poem, a geometrical problem, an idol, or the True God -- that he completely forgets his own ego and desires, he is praying. The primary task of the schoolteacher is to teach children, in a secular context, the technique of prayer.

Auden, W. H.

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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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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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Why is it when we talk to God, we're praying, but when God talks to us, we're schizophrenic?

Tomlin, Lily

31.

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

Buttrick, George

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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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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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Audible prayer can never do the works of spiritual understanding, which regenerates; but silent prayer, watchfulness, and devout obedience enable us to follow Jesus example. Long prayers, superstition, and creeds clip the strong pinions of love, and clothe religion in human forms. Whatever materializes worship hinders man's spiritual growth and keeps him from demonstrating his power over error.

Eddy, Mary Baker

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Proverb

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If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.

Meister Eckhart

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

Schillerbuch

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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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

Hippocrates

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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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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

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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.