Motivational Quotes

Prayer

Your prayer must be for a sound mind in a sound body.

- Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.

Barr, Amelia E.

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

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.

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

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

A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.

Lessing, Gotthold

Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

Eckhart, Meister

10.

Most men pray for power, the strength to do things. Few people pray for love, the quality to be someone.

Foster, Robert D.

11.

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

Proverb, Jewish

12.

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

Temple, Sir William

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

Cohen, Leonard

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

Augustine, St.

17.

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

Lessing, Doris

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

Proverb

19.

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

Proverb

20.

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

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22.

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

Bernanos, Georges

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Your prayer must be for a sound mind in a sound body.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

25.

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

Juvenal

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

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

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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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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

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

Socrates

32.

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

33.

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

Illich, Ivan

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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

35.

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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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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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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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

39.

Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

40.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

G. E. Lessing

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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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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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

Wolpe, David J.

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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