Motivational Quotes

Prayer

Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.

- Pilgrim, Peace

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

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

G. E. Lessing

Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.

Barr, Amelia E.

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

Temple, Sir William

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

Proverb, English

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

Bible

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

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

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

Brault, Robert

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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

Schillerbuch

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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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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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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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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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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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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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Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes.

Hillesum, Etty

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Wolpe, David J.

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Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it.

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Seneca

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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Cockburn, Alexander

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

Seneca

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

Meister Eckhart

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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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Practice in life whatever you pray for and God will give it to you more abundantly.

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

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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. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.

Phillips Brooks

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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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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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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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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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