Motivational Quotes

Prayer

Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

- Proverb, Scottish

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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.

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

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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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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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

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

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Temple, Sir William

10.

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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11.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

12.

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

13.

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

14.

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

Hippocrates

15.

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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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

17.

Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

18.

There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.

Hugo, Victor

19.

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

Cockburn, Alexander

21.

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

Lessing, Gotthold

22.

Do not make prayer a monologue -- make it a conversation.

23.

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

Proverb

24.

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

25.

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

Michalski, Stan

26.

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

Bernanos, Georges

27.

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

28.

We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

29.

Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.

Herbert, George

30.

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

31.

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

Foster, Robert D.

32.

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

33.

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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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 ask for what you will wish you had not got.

Seneca

36.

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.

37.

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

38.

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

Socrates

39.

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

G. E. Lessing

40.

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

Rader, Lyell

41.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

43.

Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

44.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

45.

Prayer is talking with God and telling Him you love Him, conversing with God about all the things that are important in life, both large and small, and being assured that He is listening.

Strait, C. Neil

46.

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

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48.

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

Proverb, English

49.

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