Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Prayer

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.

Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Juvenal

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

Proverb, Indian

Pray. To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

Taylor, Jeremy

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us.

Bernanos, Georges

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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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

Seneca

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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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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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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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We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them.

West, Charles C.

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

Proverb

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

Augustine, 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.

Brooks, Phillips

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

Lessing, Doris

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

Proverb

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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Wolpe, David J.

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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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]

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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

Hippocrates

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

Michalski, Stan

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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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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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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Real Live Preacher

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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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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

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

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