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

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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

G. E. Lessing

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

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

Prayer is not a substitute for work, thinking, watching, suffering, or giving; prayer is a support for all other efforts.

Buttrick, George

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

Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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

Temple, Sir William

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

Meister Eckhart

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

Michalski, Stan

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

Oscar Wilde

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

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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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The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Seneca

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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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

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

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

Proverb

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

Schillerbuch

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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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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Lessing, Doris

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

Tupper, Martin

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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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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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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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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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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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