Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Proverb, English

Best Quotes about Prayer

Don't put people down, unless it's on your prayer list.

Michalski, Stan

The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us.

Bernanos, Georges

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

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Proverb, English

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

Eckhart, Meister

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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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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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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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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Proverb

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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]

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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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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To be sure, this requires effort and love, a careful cultivation of the spiritual life, and a watchful, honest, active oversight of all one's mental attitudes towards things and people. It is not to be learned by world-flight, running away from things, turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, one must learn an inner solitude, where or with whomsoever he may be. He must learn to penetrate things and find God there, to get a strong impression of God firmly fixed on his mind.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Brault, Robert

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

Oscar Wilde

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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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

Temple, Sir William

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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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One hour in the execution of justice is worth seventy years of prayer.

Proverb

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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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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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

Schillerbuch

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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 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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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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

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

Wolpe, David J.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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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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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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 the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.

Tupper, Martin