Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Temple, Sir William

Best Quotes about Prayer

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.

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

Eckhart, Meister

Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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.

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.

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

Lessing, Doris

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

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

Tupper, Martin

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

Herbert, George

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

Voltaire

12.

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

Barr, Amelia E.

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

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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

Socrates

18.

Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

19.

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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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

21.

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

Proverb, English

22.

Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

23.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

26.

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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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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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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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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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

32.

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

34.

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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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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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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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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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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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

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

Proverb

41.

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

Cockburn, Alexander

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The time of business does not with me differ from the time of prayer, and in the noise and clatter of my kitchen, while several persons are at the same time calling for different things, I possess God as if I were upon my knees at the blessed sacrament.

Lawrence, Brother

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

Michalski, Stan

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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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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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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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

Juvenal