Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Seneca

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Proverb, English

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Michalski, Stan

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

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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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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

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God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers and thrust the thing we have prayed for in our face, like a gauntlet with a gift in it.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Wolpe, David J.

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

Proverb, Indian

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The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us.

Bernanos, Georges

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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 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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Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us.

Selden, John

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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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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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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Phillips Brooks

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

Meister Eckhart

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

Herbert, George

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

Rader, Lyell

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

Bible

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To be sure, this requires effort and love, a careful cultivation of the spiritual life, and a watchful, honest, active oversight of all one's mental attitudes towards things and people. It is not to be learned by world-flight, running away from things, turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, one must learn an inner solitude, where or with whomsoever he may be. He must learn to penetrate things and find God there, to get a strong impression of God firmly fixed on his mind.

Eckhart, Meister

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Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it.

Taylor, Jeremy

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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Schillerbuch

40.

Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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 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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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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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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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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Pray that you will never have to bear all that you are able to endure.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Augustine, St.

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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