Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Buttrick, George

Best Quotes about Prayer

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

Cohen, Leonard

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

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

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

Most men pray for power, the strength to do things. Few people pray for love, the quality to be someone.

Foster, Robert D.

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

Barr, Amelia E.

We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

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

Temple, Sir William

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

Lessing, Gotthold

11.

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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When a man has done all he can do, still there is a mighty, mysterious agency over which he needs influence to secure success. The one way he can reach it is by prayer.

Conwell, Russel H.

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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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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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When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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

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

Real Live Preacher

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It is from prayer that the spirit's victory springs.

Schillerbuch

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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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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]

Bible

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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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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

Hippocrates

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

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Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

Socrates

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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

Michalski, Stan

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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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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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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

33.

Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Rader, Lyell

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Cockburn, Alexander

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Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.

Gide, Andre

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

Illich, Ivan

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

Augustine, St.

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

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

Juvenal