Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Proverb, English

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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.

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

Illich, Ivan

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

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

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

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

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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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Michalski, Stan

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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.

Brooks, Phillips

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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Meister Eckhart

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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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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 man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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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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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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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Proverb

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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

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

Proverb, English

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

Bible

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

Schillerbuch

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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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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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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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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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

Temple, Sir William

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

Proverb

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

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

Brault, Robert

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

Lessing, Doris

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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