Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Rader, Lyell

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

Eckhart, Meister

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

That prayer has great power which a person makes with all his might. It makes a sour heart sweet, a sad heart merry, a poor heart rich, a foolish heart wise, a timid heart brave, a sick heart well, a blind heart full of sight, a cold heart ardent. It draws down the great God into the little heart; it drives the hungry soul up into the fullness of God; it brings together two lovers, God and the soul, in a wondrous place where they speak much of love.

Magheburg, Mechthild of

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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Ask God for what man can give, and you may get it.

Proverb, English

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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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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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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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

Juvenal

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

Lessing, Doris

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

Wolpe, David J.

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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.

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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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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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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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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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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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

G. E. Lessing

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

Seneca

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

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Herbert, George

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

Cockburn, Alexander

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

Temple, Sir William

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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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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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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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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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.