Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Hippocrates

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Wolpe, David J.

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]

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

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

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

Rader, Lyell

Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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

Hippocrates

We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Illich, Ivan

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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]

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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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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Take God for your spouse and friend and walk with him continually, and you will not sin and will learn to love, and the things you must do will work out prosperously for you.

John of the Cross, St.

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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 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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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Brault, Robert

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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Pray that you will never have to bear all that you are able to endure.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Proverb, Indian

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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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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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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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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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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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Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.

Milton, John

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

Temple, Sir William

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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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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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

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

Seneca

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