Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

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

Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Tomlin, Lily

Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Proverb

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

Temple, Sir William

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Herbert, George

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

Michalski, Stan

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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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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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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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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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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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Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

Cohen, Leonard

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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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Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us.

Selden, John

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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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The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us.

Bernanos, Georges

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

Brault, Robert

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

27.

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

Seneca

29.

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

30.

We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Lessing, Doris

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

Socrates

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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

35.

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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

Tupper, Martin

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

Bible

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

Meister Eckhart

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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

43.

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

44.

Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Wolpe, David J.

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Real Live Preacher

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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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Practice in life whatever you pray for and God will give it to you more abundantly.

Pusey, Edward Bouverie