Motivational Quotes

Prayer

Pray. To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Cockburn, Alexander

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

Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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

Taylor, Jeremy

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Juvenal

10.

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

Seneca

11.

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

Rader, Lyell

12.

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

Proverb

16.

Take God for your spouse and friend and walk with him continually, and you will not sin and will learn to love, and the things you must do will work out prosperously for you.

John of the Cross, St.

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Lessing, Doris

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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

22.

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

Real Live Preacher

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

24.

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

Tupper, Martin

25.

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

26.

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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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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Pray. To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Proverb, Indian

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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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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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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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

Bible

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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

38.

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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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

40.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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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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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

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

Herbert, George

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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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