Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Proverb, Jewish

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Robson, Dame Flora

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

Seneca

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

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

Why is it when we talk to God, we're praying, but when God talks to us, we're schizophrenic?

Tomlin, Lily

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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.

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

Cohen, Leonard

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

Augustine, St.

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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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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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When a man has done all he can do, still there is a mighty, mysterious agency over which he needs influence to secure success. The one way he can reach it is by prayer.

Conwell, Russel H.

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

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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Bible

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

Schillerbuch

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

Seneca

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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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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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

Juvenal

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

O'Malley, Austin

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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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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Indian

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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

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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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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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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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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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

Tupper, Martin

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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

G. E. Lessing

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

Lessing, Doris

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

Michalski, Stan

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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