Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Temple, Sir William

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

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

Meister Eckhart

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

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

Brault, Robert

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

Illich, Ivan

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

11.

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Schillerbuch

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

Bible

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

Robson, Dame Flora

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

Barr, Amelia E.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Proverb

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Temple, Sir William

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

Michalski, Stan

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

Baudelaire, Charles

32.

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

Cockburn, Alexander

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Ask God for what man can give, and you may get it.

Proverb, English

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

Rader, Lyell

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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

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Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.

Herbert, George

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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]

Bible

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

Proverb, Indian

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

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

Oscar Wilde