Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Illich, Ivan

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

Michalski, Stan

Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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 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

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

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

Wolpe, David J.

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

Voltaire

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

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

Oscar Wilde

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Pray for what you want, but work for what you need.

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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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If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

Eckhart, Meister

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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

17.

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Seneca

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Seneca

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

Brault, Robert

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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

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

Socrates

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

Augustine, St.

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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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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Tupper, Martin

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

Josh Billings

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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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Most men pray for power, the strength to do things. Few people pray for love, the quality to be someone.

Foster, Robert D.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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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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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian