Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Prayer

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.

Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Bernanos, Georges

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.

G. E. Lessing

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

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.

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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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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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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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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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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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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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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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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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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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Rader, Lyell

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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

Seneca

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

Proverb, Indian

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

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Prayer is not a substitute for work, thinking, watching, suffering, or giving; prayer is a support for all other efforts.

Buttrick, George

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

Temple, Sir William

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Herbert, George

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

Voltaire

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

Brault, Robert

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Robson, Dame Flora