Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Augustine, St.

Best Quotes about Prayer

There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

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

Proverb

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

Seneca

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

Temple, Sir William

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

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

Tomlin, Lily

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

Foster, Robert D.

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

Herbert, George

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The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

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

Michalski, Stan

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

Seneca

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

Proverb

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

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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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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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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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 the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.

Tupper, Martin

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

Bible

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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

Augustine, St.

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

Buttrick, George

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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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

Proverb, Indian

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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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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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

Peale, Norman Vincent