Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Socrates

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

Seneca

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Hippocrates

So I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

Bible

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

Cohen, Leonard

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.

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

Schillerbuch

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

12.

Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

13.

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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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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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

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

17.

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

Proverb, English

18.

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

Proverb

19.

Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

20.

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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Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Juvenal

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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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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If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.

Meister Eckhart

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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.

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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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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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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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Practice in life whatever you pray for and God will give it to you more abundantly.

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

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

G. E. Lessing

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

Brault, Robert

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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

41.

Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

42.

We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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One hour in the execution of justice is worth seventy years of prayer.

Proverb

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Bible

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

Proverb, Indian