Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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.

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

Bible

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

Hippocrates

Why is it when we talk to God, we're praying, but when God talks to us, we're schizophrenic?

Tomlin, Lily

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

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

Tupper, Martin

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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

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

Brault, Robert

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

Schillerbuch

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

Lessing, Doris

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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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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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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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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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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Seneca

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

Michalski, Stan

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

Real Live Preacher

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Meister Eckhart

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Bible

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

Wolpe, David J.

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

Seneca

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

Proverb

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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey