Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Pusey, Edward Bouverie

Best Quotes about Prayer

Most men pray for power, the strength to do things. Few people pray for love, the quality to be someone.

Foster, Robert D.

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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

Juvenal

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

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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

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

Cockburn, Alexander

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

Temple, Sir William

Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord by ceasing to pray for you, but I will instruct you in the good and right way. [I Samuel 12:23]

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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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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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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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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If I regard wickedness in my heart the Lord will not hear. [Psalms 66:18]

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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 a substitute for work, thinking, watching, suffering, or giving; prayer is a support for all other efforts.

Buttrick, George

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You can pray for someone even if you don't think God exists.

Real Live Preacher

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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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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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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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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Augustine, St.

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

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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Brault, Robert

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

Illich, Ivan

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If you can't pray a door open, don't pry it open.

Rader, Lyell

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

Seneca

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Seneca

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

Proverb

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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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

G. E. Lessing

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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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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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. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.

Phillips Brooks

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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]

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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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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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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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