Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Robson, Dame Flora

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

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

Bible

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.

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Juvenal

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

Lessing, Doris

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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Real Live Preacher

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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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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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

Buttrick, George

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

Proverb, English

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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

Illich, Ivan

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

Tupper, Martin

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

Herbert, George

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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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Indeed many things which we shall not be able to discover either by the experiment of works or by the investigations of reason we shall deserve to be taught by importunate prayer, by the revelation of divine inspiration.

Richard of Saint Victor

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Proverb, Indian

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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

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

Proverb

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

G. E. Lessing

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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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Do not make prayer a monologue -- make it a conversation.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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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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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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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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The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.

Baudelaire, Charles