Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

Best Quotes about Prayer

Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

Tupper, Martin

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Juvenal

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

Augustine, St.

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

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Wolpe, David J.

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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

Meister Eckhart

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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

Lessing, Doris

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Proverb

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

Illich, Ivan

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

Rader, Lyell

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Barr, Amelia E.

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

Bible

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

Proverb, Indian

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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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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

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

Robson, Dame Flora

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

Hippocrates

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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.