Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Oscar Wilde

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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

Meister Eckhart

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

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

Proverb, Indian

My prayer to God is a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies look ridiculous! God has granted it.

Voltaire

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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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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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Hippocrates

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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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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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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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There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.

O'Malley, Austin

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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

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

Proverb, English

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The influence of prayer on the human mind and body is as demonstrable as that of secreting glands. Its results can be measured in terms of increased physical buoyancy, greater intellectual vigor, moral stamina, and a deeper understanding of the realities underlying human relationships.

Carrel, Dr. Alex

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

Real Live Preacher

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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.

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

Proverb

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

Bible

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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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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

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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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

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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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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.

Augustine, St.

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

Bible

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

Illich, Ivan

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

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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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We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them.

West, Charles C.

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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

Tupper, Martin

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

Socrates

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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