Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Peale, Norman Vincent

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Robson, Dame Flora

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

Rader, Lyell

Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

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

Augustine, St.

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

Brault, Robert

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.

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

Proverb

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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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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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Hippocrates

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

Michalski, Stan

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

17.

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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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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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

21.

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

22.

Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

23.

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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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.

Milton, John

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Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

Seneca

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

Schillerbuch

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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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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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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

Wolpe, David J.

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The time of business does not with me differ from the time of prayer, and in the noise and clatter of my kitchen, while several persons are at the same time calling for different things, I possess God as if I were upon my knees at the blessed sacrament.

Lawrence, Brother

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

Barr, Amelia E.

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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

Temple, Sir William

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Oscar Wilde

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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]

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

Hugo, Victor