Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

Best Quotes about Prayer

Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

Pray for what you want, but work for what you need.

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.

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

Bible

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

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

Michalski, Stan

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

Herbert, George

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

Tomlin, Lily

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Illich, Ivan

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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 simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

Lessing, Doris

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Augustine, St.

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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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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

G. E. Lessing

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That prayer has great power which a person makes with all his might. It makes a sour heart sweet, a sad heart merry, a poor heart rich, a foolish heart wise, a timid heart brave, a sick heart well, a blind heart full of sight, a cold heart ardent. It draws down the great God into the little heart; it drives the hungry soul up into the fullness of God; it brings together two lovers, God and the soul, in a wondrous place where they speak much of love.

Magheburg, Mechthild of

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

Seneca

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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

30.

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.

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

Temple, Sir William

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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]

Bible

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

Wolpe, David J.

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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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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. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.

Phillips Brooks

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

Proverb, English

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Schillerbuch

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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

Socrates

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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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