Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Rader, Lyell

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb

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

Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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

Proverb, English

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

Herbert, George

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

10.

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

Temple, Sir William

11.

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

Augustine, St.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The fates are not quite obdurate; they have a grim, sardonic way of granting them who supplicate the thing they wanted yesterday.

Montgomery, Roselle Mercier

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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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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]

Bible

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

Bible

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

Brault, Robert

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Prayer is less about changing the world than it is about changing ourselves.

Wolpe, David J.

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

Juvenal

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

Seneca

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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

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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 is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.

Tupper, Martin

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

G. E. Lessing

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Meister Eckhart

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Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Bible

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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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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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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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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

40.

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

Tomlin, Lily

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Illich, Ivan

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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.