Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Proverb, Jewish

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

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

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

Cockburn, Alexander

Practice in life whatever you pray for and God will give it to you more abundantly.

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Proverb

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Augustine, St.

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

Juvenal

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

Socrates

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

G. E. Lessing

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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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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Tupper, Martin

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That prayer has great power which a person makes with all his might. It makes a sour heart sweet, a sad heart merry, a poor heart rich, a foolish heart wise, a timid heart brave, a sick heart well, a blind heart full of sight, a cold heart ardent. It draws down the great God into the little heart; it drives the hungry soul up into the fullness of God; it brings together two lovers, God and the soul, in a wondrous place where they speak much of love.

Magheburg, Mechthild of

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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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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

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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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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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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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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]

Bible

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

Schillerbuch

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

Proverb

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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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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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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Robson, Dame Flora

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

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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

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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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Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.

Barr, Amelia E.

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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Peale, Norman Vincent