Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Voltaire

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

Most men pray for power, the strength to do things. Few people pray for love, the quality to be someone.

Foster, Robert D.

Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Brault, Robert

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

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

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

Meister Eckhart

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

Proverb

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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.

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

Temple, Sir William

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Schillerbuch

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

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

Juvenal

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

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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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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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

Rader, Lyell

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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Wolpe, David J.

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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Barr, Amelia E.

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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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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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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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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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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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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.