Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Tupper, Martin

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

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

Proverb, English

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

A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.

Cockburn, Alexander

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

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

Herbert, George

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We are all weak, finite, simple human beings, standing in the need of prayer. None need it so much as those who think they are strong, those who know it not, but are deluded by self-sufficiency.

Phillips, Harold C.

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

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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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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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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

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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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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Proverb

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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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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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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

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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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

Schillerbuch

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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

Illich, Ivan

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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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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Bible

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

Proverb

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