Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Proverb, Jewish

Best Quotes about Prayer

Most men pray for power, the strength to do things. Few people pray for love, the quality to be someone.

Foster, Robert D.

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

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

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

The time of business does not with me differ from the time of prayer, and in the noise and clatter of my kitchen, while several persons are at the same time calling for different things, I possess God as if I were upon my knees at the blessed sacrament.

Lawrence, Brother

Ask God's blessing on your work, but don't ask him to do it for you.

Robson, Dame Flora

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

Proverb

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

Juvenal

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

Rader, Lyell

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

Augustine, St.

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

17.

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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

Bernanos, Georges

21.

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

Meister Eckhart

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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

24.

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

Seneca

25.

Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Brault, Robert

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

Illich, Ivan

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

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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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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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.

40.

Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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

Michalski, Stan

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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

Oscar Wilde

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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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

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Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.

O'Malley, Austin

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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