Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

Best Quotes about Prayer

Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.

Barr, Amelia E.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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

Brault, Robert

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Juvenal

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

Illich, Ivan

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

Augustine, St.

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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 entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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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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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

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

Meister Eckhart

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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Schillerbuch

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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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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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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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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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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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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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

Temple, Sir William

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

Proverb

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

Herbert, George

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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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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

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

Michalski, Stan

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

Socrates

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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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.