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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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

Bible

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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

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

Cockburn, Alexander

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

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

Herbert, George

10.

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

Proverb

11.

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

Oscar Wilde

12.

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

Proverb, English

13.

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

Real Live Preacher

14.

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

Rader, Lyell

15.

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

Proverb, Indian

16.

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

Illich, Ivan

17.

Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

18.

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]

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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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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

21.

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

22.

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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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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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

25.

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

Temple, Sir William

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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

28.

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

Voltaire

29.

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

Augustine, St.

30.

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

Hippocrates

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

34.

Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Tomlin, Lily

37.

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

39.

Pray that you will never have to bear all that you are able to endure.

Proverb, Jewish

40.

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

Eckhart, Meister

41.

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.

42.

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

Cohen, Leonard

43.

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

Brault, Robert

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Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

Gandhi, Mahatma

45.

Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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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.

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The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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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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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard