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

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

Brault, Robert

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

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

Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

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.

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

Proverb

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

G. E. Lessing

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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Temple, Sir William

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Proverb, Indian

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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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Prayer is less about changing the world than it is about changing ourselves.

Wolpe, David J.

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

Herbert, George

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

Juvenal

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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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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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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

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

31.

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

Augustine, St.

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

Bible

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

38.

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

Seneca

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

Bible

43.

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

Schillerbuch

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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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