Motivational Quotes

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.

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Robson, Dame Flora

Do not make prayer a monologue -- make it a conversation.

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

G. E. Lessing

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

Seneca

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

Schillerbuch

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

13.

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Proverb

20.

Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Proverb

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Augustine, St.

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A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

Lessing, Doris

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

31.

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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The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us.

Bernanos, Georges

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Illich, Ivan

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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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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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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

42.

Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Tupper, Martin

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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