Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Schillerbuch

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Rader, Lyell

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

Proverb

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

Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Proverb, English

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

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

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

Schillerbuch

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

12.

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

Temple, Sir William

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

Seneca

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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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

Proverb, Jewish

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When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.

Taylor, Jeremy

24.

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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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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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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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

28.

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]

Bible

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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

30.

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

Buttrick, George

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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Seneca

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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 indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

Hippocrates

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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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

Proverb

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

Illich, Ivan

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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 a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bible

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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

Oscar Wilde

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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