Motivational Quotes

Prayer

Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

- Tennyson, Lord Alfred

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Proverb

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

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

Seneca

There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.

Hugo, Victor

Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Temple, Sir William

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

Illich, Ivan

11.

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

Seneca

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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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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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

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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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Indeed many things which we shall not be able to discover either by the experiment of works or by the investigations of reason we shall deserve to be taught by importunate prayer, by the revelation of divine inspiration.

Richard of Saint Victor

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

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

25.

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

Herbert, George

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

Bible

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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 and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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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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You can pray for someone even if you don't think God exists.

Real Live Preacher

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Proverb, English

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

Meister Eckhart

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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

Bible

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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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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Rader, Lyell

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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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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Pray. To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

Bierce, Ambrose