Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Brault, Robert

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

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

Buttrick, George

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

Rader, Lyell

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

Taylor, Jeremy

There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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.

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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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

Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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Pray for what you want, but work for what you need.

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

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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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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Michalski, Stan

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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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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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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 is a passport to heaven. Your communication with God.

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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.

Brooks, Phillips

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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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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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.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

Seneca

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

Barr, Amelia E.

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

Bernanos, Georges

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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.

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