Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

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Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Juvenal

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

Illich, Ivan

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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

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

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

Tupper, Martin

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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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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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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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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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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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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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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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

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

Brault, Robert

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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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

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

Lessing, Doris

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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Barr, Amelia E.

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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Herbert, George

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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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If you can't pray a door open, don't pry it open.

Rader, Lyell

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Seneca

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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

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

Tomlin, Lily

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Proverb

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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