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

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

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

Schillerbuch

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

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

Seneca

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Tomlin, Lily

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

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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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 is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.

Tupper, Martin

12.

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

Michalski, Stan

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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

Proverb

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Illich, Ivan

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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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

G. E. Lessing

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

Temple, Sir William

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Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts let it not awaken like a frightened bird that flies about in dismay, but like a child waking from its sleep with a heavenly smile.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Seneca

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

Real Live Preacher

30.

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.

31.

Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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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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. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.

Phillips Brooks

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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Pray that you will never have to bear all that you are able to endure.