Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Oscar Wilde

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Robson, Dame Flora

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

Hippocrates

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.

If I told you what it takes to reach the highest high you'd laugh and say nothing that simple, but you've been told many times before messiah's point you to the door though no one's got the guts to leave the temple.

Townsend, Peter

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

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Juvenal

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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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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 to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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

Bible

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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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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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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

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

Augustine, St.

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.

Gide, Andre

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Brault, Robert

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Proverb, Indian

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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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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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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

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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.

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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

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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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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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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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When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Gandhi, Mahatma