Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Taylor, Jeremy

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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

Proverb, Jewish

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Seneca

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

Proverb, Indian

Ask God for what man can give, and you may get it.

Proverb, English

There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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

Herbert, George

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

Proverb

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

Brault, Robert

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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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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

19.

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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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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If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.

Meister Eckhart

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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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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

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The time of business does not with me differ from the time of prayer, and in the noise and clatter of my kitchen, while several persons are at the same time calling for different things, I possess God as if I were upon my knees at the blessed sacrament.

Lawrence, Brother

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Bible

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

Juvenal

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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 ask for what you will wish you had not got.

Seneca

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Rader, Lyell

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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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

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

Hippocrates

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

Proverb

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When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.

Oscar Wilde

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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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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