Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Proverb, English

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

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

Seneca

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Pray. To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Brault, Robert

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

Cohen, Leonard

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

Michalski, Stan

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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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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Juvenal

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

Proverb

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

Proverb

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

Meister Eckhart

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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

Barr, Amelia E.

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

Voltaire

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

G. E. Lessing

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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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]

Bible

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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

Schillerbuch

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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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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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Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts let it not awaken like a frightened bird that flies about in dismay, but like a child waking from its sleep with a heavenly smile.

Kierkegaard, S°ren