Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Temple, Sir William

Best Quotes about Prayer

Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Lessing, Doris

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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

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

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

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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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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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If you can't pray a door open, don't pry it open.

Rader, Lyell

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

Eckhart, Meister

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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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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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

G. E. Lessing

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Take God for your spouse and friend and walk with him continually, and you will not sin and will learn to love, and the things you must do will work out prosperously for you.

John of the Cross, St.

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

Michalski, Stan

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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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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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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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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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If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.

Meister Eckhart

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

Augustine, St.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Schillerbuch

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There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Proverb

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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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

Bible

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

Proverb

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

Seneca