Motivational Quotes

Prayer

No one can pray well, but those who live well.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Prayer

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.

Practice in life whatever you pray for and God will give it to you more abundantly.

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

Pray. To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

Schillerbuch

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

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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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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

Meister Eckhart

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

Michalski, Stan

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No one can pray well, but those who live well.

Proverb

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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

Juvenal

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

Rader, Lyell

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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

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

Robson, Dame Flora

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

Illich, Ivan

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

Lessing, Doris

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

Brault, Robert

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

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

Tupper, Martin

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

Proverb

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Proverb, English

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

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