Motivational Quotes

Prayer

Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

- Jerrold, Douglas William

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Proverb, English

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

Cohen, Leonard

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

Illich, Ivan

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Oscar Wilde

Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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

Rader, Lyell

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

Proverb, Indian

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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

G. E. Lessing

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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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Prayer is less about changing the world than it is about changing ourselves.

Wolpe, David J.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Bible

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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Michalski, Stan

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Proverb

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Seneca

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

Real Live Preacher

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

O'Malley, Austin

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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

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

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

Juvenal

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

Franklin, Benjamin