Motivational Quotes

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

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Augustine, St.

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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.

11.

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

Juvenal

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

Proverb

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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Robson, Dame Flora

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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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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord by ceasing to pray for you, but I will instruct you in the good and right way. [I Samuel 12:23]

Bible

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When a man has done all he can do, still there is a mighty, mysterious agency over which he needs influence to secure success. The one way he can reach it is by prayer.

Conwell, Russel H.

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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

32.

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

Meister Eckhart

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

Lessing, Doris

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

Rader, Lyell

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

Bible

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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

40.

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 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 pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention -- on a landscape, a poem, a geometrical problem, an idol, or the True God -- that he completely forgets his own ego and desires, he is praying. The primary task of the schoolteacher is to teach children, in a secular context, the technique of prayer.

Auden, W. H.

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

Brault, Robert

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

Bible

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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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Prayer is not a substitute for work, thinking, watching, suffering, or giving; prayer is a support for all other efforts.

Buttrick, George

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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