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

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.

We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

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

Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Seneca

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

Brault, Robert

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

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

10.

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

Bible

11.

Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

12.

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Juvenal

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Barr, Amelia E.

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

Socrates

26.

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

Bible

28.

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

Meister Eckhart

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

G. E. Lessing

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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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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Seneca

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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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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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

40.

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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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Tupper, Martin

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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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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