Motivational Quotes

Prayer

Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

- Proverb, Russian

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

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

Cockburn, Alexander

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

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

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

Rader, Lyell

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

Oscar Wilde

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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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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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Proverb, English

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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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A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

Lessing, Doris

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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Meister Eckhart

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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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

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

Illich, Ivan

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

Robson, Dame Flora

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

Proverb, Indian

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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Bible

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

Schillerbuch

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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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

Tomlin, Lily

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

Temple, Sir William

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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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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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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

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

Pusey, Edward Bouverie