Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

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

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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

Barr, Amelia E.

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

Seneca

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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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

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

Schillerbuch

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

Juvenal

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

Augustine, St.

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

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Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.

Tupper, Martin

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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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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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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

G. E. Lessing

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

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

Proverb

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Wolpe, David J.

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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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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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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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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Socrates

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Michalski, Stan

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

Proverb, Indian

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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

42.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

44.

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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Practice in life whatever you pray for and God will give it to you more abundantly.

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

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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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Short prayers reach heaven.

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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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

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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