Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Taylor, Jeremy

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

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

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

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

Hippocrates

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

Temple, Sir William

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.

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

Augustine, St.

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

Herbert, George

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

Proverb

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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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

Schillerbuch

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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Brault, Robert

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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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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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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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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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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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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 ask for what you will wish you had not got.

Seneca

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Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.

Gandhi, Mahatma

31.

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.

Brooks, Phillips

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

Bible

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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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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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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 prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

Socrates

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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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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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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Lessing, Doris

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

G. E. Lessing

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

Proverb

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

Michalski, Stan

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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