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

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

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

Hugo, Victor

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

Eckhart, Meister

Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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

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

Bible

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

Tupper, Martin

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

Schillerbuch

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

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

Bible

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

Meister Eckhart

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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

Proverb

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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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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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

G. E. Lessing

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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My prayer to God is a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies look ridiculous! God has granted it.

Voltaire

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

Herbert, George

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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Brault, Robert

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

Juvenal

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

Temple, Sir William

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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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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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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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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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Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.

O'Malley, Austin

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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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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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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 you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Rader, Lyell

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

Proverb, English