Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Proverb, English

Best Quotes about Prayer

Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Robson, Dame Flora

There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.

Hugo, Victor

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

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

Prayer is less about changing the world than it is about changing ourselves.

Wolpe, David J.

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

Proverb

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Lessing, Doris

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

Proverb, Jewish

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Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

Socrates

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

Tupper, Martin

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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

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

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

G. E. Lessing

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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So I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

Bible

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

Illich, Ivan

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

Temple, Sir William

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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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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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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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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.

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

Proverb

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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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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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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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

Bible

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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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