Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Bernanos, Georges

Best Quotes about Prayer

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.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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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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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Illich, Ivan

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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Brault, Robert

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Augustine, St.

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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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

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

Lessing, Doris

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

Proverb

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Ask God for what man can give, and you may get it.

Proverb, English

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Hippocrates

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Juvenal

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

Proverb

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

Bible

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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