Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Rader, Lyell

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Seneca

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

G. E. Lessing

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

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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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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We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

Seneca

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Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Rader, Lyell

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

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

Michalski, Stan

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

Cockburn, Alexander

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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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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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

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

Proverb, English

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

Schillerbuch

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

Augustine, St.

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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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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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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 simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

Lessing, Doris

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

Illich, Ivan

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

Wolpe, David J.

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

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

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

Brault, Robert

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

Herbert, George

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

Proverb