Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Pusey, Edward Bouverie

Best Quotes about Prayer

Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.

Tupper, Martin

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

Real Live Preacher

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.

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

So I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

Bible

Pray for what you want, but work for what you need.

Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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

Proverb, English

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

Augustine, St.

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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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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 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

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

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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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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Proverb

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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

Schillerbuch

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

Seneca

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Herbert, George

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Heaven grant that the burden you carry may have as easy an exit as it had an entrance. [Prayer To A Pregnant Woman]

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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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

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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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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Illich, Ivan

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

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

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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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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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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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

Lessing, Doris

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard