Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Prayer

A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.

Cockburn, Alexander

Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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.

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

Lessing, Doris

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Barr, Amelia E.

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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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Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Michalski, Stan

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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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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Temple, Sir William

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

Schillerbuch

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

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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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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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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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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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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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Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes.

Hillesum, Etty

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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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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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

Meister Eckhart

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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Seneca

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

Wolpe, David J.

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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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

Herbert, George

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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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That prayer has great power which a person makes with all his might. It makes a sour heart sweet, a sad heart merry, a poor heart rich, a foolish heart wise, a timid heart brave, a sick heart well, a blind heart full of sight, a cold heart ardent. It draws down the great God into the little heart; it drives the hungry soul up into the fullness of God; it brings together two lovers, God and the soul, in a wondrous place where they speak much of love.

Magheburg, Mechthild of

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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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

Tupper, Martin

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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Proverb, Indian

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