Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Prayer

Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Seneca

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

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

Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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

Augustine, St.

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

Ask God's blessing on your work, but don't ask him to do it for you.

Robson, Dame Flora

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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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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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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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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

14.

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

Proverb, English

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

Rader, Lyell

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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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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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

21.

One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.

G. E. Lessing

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

Brault, Robert

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

Real Live Preacher

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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 not a substitute for work, thinking, watching, suffering, or giving; prayer is a support for all other efforts.

Buttrick, George

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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Cockburn, Alexander

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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

34.

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

Michalski, Stan

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

Oscar Wilde

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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Wolpe, David J.

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

Proverb

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

Proverb, Jewish

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The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Temple, Sir William

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

Proverb

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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