Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

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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

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

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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

Foster, Robert D.

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

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

Juvenal

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

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

Michalski, Stan

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A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

Lessing, Doris

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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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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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.

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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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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]

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Hippocrates

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

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Barr, Amelia E.

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

Seneca

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

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

Proverb

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Do not make prayer a monologue -- make it a conversation.

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

Socrates