Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Prayer

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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

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

It is good to pray for the repair of mistakes, but praying earlier would keep us from making so many. When puzzled, go to prayer and listen.

Macaulay, J. C.

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

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Augustine, St.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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

Brault, Robert

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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

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

Temple, Sir William

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

Seneca

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

Oscar Wilde

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Heaven grant that the burden you carry may have as easy an exit as it had an entrance. [Prayer To A Pregnant Woman]

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Schillerbuch

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

Herbert, George

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Illich, Ivan

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

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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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The influence of prayer on the human mind and body is as demonstrable as that of secreting glands. Its results can be measured in terms of increased physical buoyancy, greater intellectual vigor, moral stamina, and a deeper understanding of the realities underlying human relationships.

Carrel, Dr. Alex

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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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

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

Juvenal

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

Seneca

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