Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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.

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Brault, Robert

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

Meister Eckhart

Why is it when we talk to God, we're praying, but when God talks to us, we're schizophrenic?

Tomlin, Lily

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

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Robson, Dame Flora

You must pray that the way be long, full of adventures and experiences.

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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

G. E. Lessing

10.

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

11.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

12.

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

Socrates

13.

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

Michalski, Stan

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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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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

Schillerbuch

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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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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

19.

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

Proverb

20.

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

Cockburn, Alexander

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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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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

23.

Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

24.

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

25.

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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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Proverb, Indian

31.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

33.

Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

34.

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

Juvenal

35.

Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

36.

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

37.

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

Proverb

39.

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

40.

Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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

Herbert, George

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

Augustine, St.

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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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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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We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

Seneca

47.

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.

48.

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

49.

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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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