Motivational Quotes

Prayer

Common people do not pray; they only beg.

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Tupper, Martin

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

Bible

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Tomlin, Lily

Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.

Herbert, George

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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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Real Live Preacher

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

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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

G. E. Lessing

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

Wolpe, David J.

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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 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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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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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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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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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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God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers and thrust the thing we have prayed for in our face, like a gauntlet with a gift in it.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Proverb

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

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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

Seneca

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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Brault, Robert

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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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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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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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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.

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

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

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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