Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Prayer

My prayer to God is a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies look ridiculous! God has granted it.

Voltaire

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

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

Juvenal

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Herbert, George

11.

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Proverb

13.

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

14.

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

Cockburn, Alexander

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

Socrates

16.

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

Wolpe, David J.

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

Michalski, Stan

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

Bible

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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.

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

Robson, Dame Flora

22.

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

Proverb, Indian

23.

Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

24.

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

Tupper, Martin

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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

27.

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

Hippocrates

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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

29.

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

Bible

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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.

32.

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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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

34.

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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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Seneca

41.

Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

44.

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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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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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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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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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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We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them.

West, Charles 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.