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

Proverb, Indian

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

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

Bible

Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Bible

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

Cockburn, Alexander

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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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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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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Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

Cohen, Leonard

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

Buttrick, George

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

Lessing, Doris

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

Schillerbuch

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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

Temple, Sir William

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Juvenal

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

Barr, Amelia E.

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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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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Michalski, Stan

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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

36.

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Illich, Ivan

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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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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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It is good to pray for the repair of mistakes, but praying earlier would keep us from making so many. When puzzled, go to prayer and listen.

Macaulay, J. C.

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

G. E. Lessing

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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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Ask God's blessing on your work, but don't ask him to do it for you.

Robson, Dame Flora