Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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.

Best Quotes about Prayer

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.

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

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

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

Seneca

Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Temple, Sir William

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

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

Rader, Lyell

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

Michalski, Stan

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

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

Barr, Amelia E.

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

Socrates

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

Schillerbuch

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

G. E. Lessing

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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

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

Proverb

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

Wolpe, David J.

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

Brault, Robert

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

Augustine, St.

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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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

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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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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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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