Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Robson, Dame Flora

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Meister Eckhart

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

Schillerbuch

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

Socrates

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

Tomlin, Lily

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

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

11.

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

Tupper, Martin

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

Juvenal

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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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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God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers and thrust the thing we have prayed for in our face, like a gauntlet with a gift in it.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Michalski, Stan

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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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

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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Proverb, English

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

Proverb

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

Robson, Dame Flora

30.

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

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

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

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

Lessing, Doris

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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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That prayer has great power which a person makes with all his might. It makes a sour heart sweet, a sad heart merry, a poor heart rich, a foolish heart wise, a timid heart brave, a sick heart well, a blind heart full of sight, a cold heart ardent. It draws down the great God into the little heart; it drives the hungry soul up into the fullness of God; it brings together two lovers, God and the soul, in a wondrous place where they speak much of love.

Magheburg, Mechthild of

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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

Temple, Sir William

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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

44.

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

Seneca

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

G. E. Lessing

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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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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