Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

Best Quotes about Prayer

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.

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

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

Augustine, St.

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

Oscar Wilde

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

That prayer has great power which a person makes with all his might. It makes a sour heart sweet, a sad heart merry, a poor heart rich, a foolish heart wise, a timid heart brave, a sick heart well, a blind heart full of sight, a cold heart ardent. It draws down the great God into the little heart; it drives the hungry soul up into the fullness of God; it brings together two lovers, God and the soul, in a wondrous place where they speak much of love.

Magheburg, Mechthild of

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

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

Lessing, Doris

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

Seneca

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

G. E. Lessing

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

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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Bible

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

Wolpe, David J.

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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

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

Proverb, English

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

Robson, Dame Flora

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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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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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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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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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

Proverb

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

Proverb, Indian

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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Tupper, Martin

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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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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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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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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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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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