Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Voltaire

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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

Bible

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

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

Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Proverb, Jewish

You can pray for someone even if you don't think God exists.

Real Live Preacher

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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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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

12.

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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So I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

Bible

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

Proverb

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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

O'Malley, Austin

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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.

21.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Proverb

25.

When we take one step toward to God, he takes seven steps toward us.

Proverb, Indian

26.

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

Bible

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

G. E. Lessing

28.

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 time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it.

Josh Billings

30.

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

Illich, Ivan

32.

Prayer is less about changing the world than it is about changing ourselves.

Wolpe, David J.

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

Lessing, Doris

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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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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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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]

Bible

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A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.

Cockburn, Alexander

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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

39.

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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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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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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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

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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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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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Brault, Robert

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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.