Motivational Quotes

Prayer

There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Prayer

There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

So I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

Bible

A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.

Cockburn, Alexander

Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

Cohen, Leonard

Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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

Hippocrates

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

Bible

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

Illich, Ivan

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

Bible

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

G. E. Lessing

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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

Rader, Lyell

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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Brault, Robert

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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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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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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

Juvenal

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

Schillerbuch

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

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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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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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

Seneca

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

Tupper, Martin

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

Seneca

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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Proverb, Indian

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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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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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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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Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.

Herbert, George