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

Prayer is not a substitute for work, thinking, watching, suffering, or giving; prayer is a support for all other efforts.

Buttrick, George

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

Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.

Hammarskjold, Dag

Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.

Pilgrim, Peace

Most men pray for power, the strength to do things. Few people pray for love, the quality to be someone.

Foster, Robert D.

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

Hugo, Victor

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.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.

Peale, Norman Vincent

10.

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.

11.

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

Proverb, English

12.

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

Schillerbuch

13.

Your prayer must be for a sound mind in a sound body.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

14.

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

Proverb

15.

Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

16.

Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

17.

Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

18.

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

19.

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

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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 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 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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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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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 confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.

Gandhi, Mahatma

26.

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

Juvenal

27.

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

Bible

28.

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

Illich, Ivan

29.

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

30.

So I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

Bible

31.

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

Bible

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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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

Hippocrates

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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

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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.

36.

You must pray that the way be long, full of adventures and experiences.

Constantine Peter Cavafy

37.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

38.

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

Augustine, St.

39.

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

Tupper, Martin

42.

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

44.

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

Barr, Amelia E.

45.

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

Proverb, Indian

47.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

49.

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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We are all weak, finite, simple human beings, standing in the need of prayer. None need it so much as those who think they are strong, those who know it not, but are deluded by self-sufficiency.

Phillips, Harold C.