Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Hippocrates

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

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

Seneca

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

Lessing, Gotthold

Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.

Milton, John

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

Baudelaire, Charles

Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Socrates

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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

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

Michalski, Stan

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My prayer to God is a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies look ridiculous! God has granted it.

Voltaire

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

Bible

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

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

Bible

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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.

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So I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

Bible

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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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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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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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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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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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Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

Augustine, St.

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

Temple, Sir William

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

Proverb, Indian

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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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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. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.

Phillips Brooks

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

Juvenal

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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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But if it were I, I would appeal to God; I would lay my cause before Him. He performs wonders that cannot be fathomed, miracles that cannot be counted. [Job 5:8-9]

Bible

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

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

Proverb

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

Seneca

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts let it not awaken like a frightened bird that flies about in dismay, but like a child waking from its sleep with a heavenly smile.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus