Motivational Quotes

Prayer

Why is it when we talk to God, we're praying, but when God talks to us, we're schizophrenic?

- Tomlin, Lily

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

Barr, Amelia E.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Proverb, English

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

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

Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Seneca

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Proverb

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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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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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

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

Proverb

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

Meister Eckhart

28.

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

Brault, Robert

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Schillerbuch

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

Tupper, Martin

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

39.

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

Augustine, St.

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

Bible

42.

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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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.

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

Temple, Sir William

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

Michalski, Stan

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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.