Motivational Quotes

Prayer

The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it.

- Josh Billings

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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

Temple, Sir William

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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

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

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.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Wolpe, David J.

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

Illich, Ivan

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

Bible

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

Brault, Robert

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

Augustine, St.

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

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

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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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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Lessing, Doris

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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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

Eckhart, Meister

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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Michalski, Stan

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

Schillerbuch

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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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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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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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Pray that you will never have to bear all that you are able to endure.

Proverb, Jewish

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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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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 a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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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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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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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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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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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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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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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 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