Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Proverb, Jewish

Best Quotes about Prayer

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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

Seneca

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

Michalski, Stan

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

10.

Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

11.

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

Wolpe, David J.

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

Lessing, Doris

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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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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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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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

Augustine, St.

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Cockburn, Alexander

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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

27.

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

Brault, Robert

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

Bernanos, Georges

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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 confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.

Gandhi, Mahatma

33.

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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Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Proverb, English

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

Temple, Sir William

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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Illich, Ivan

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

Juvenal

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If this obstacle is from Thee, Lord, I accept it; but if it is from Satan, I refuse him and all his works in the name of Calvary.

Kuhn, Isobel

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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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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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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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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.