Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Real Live Preacher

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Robson, Dame Flora

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

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Cockburn, Alexander

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.

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]

Bible

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

Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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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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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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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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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

Hippocrates

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

Michalski, Stan

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

Barr, Amelia E.

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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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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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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 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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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Proverb

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

Juvenal

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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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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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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Illich, Ivan

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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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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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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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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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 the key of the day and the lock of the night.

Herbert, George

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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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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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Proverb

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

Temple, Sir William

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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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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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