Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

Best Quotes about Prayer

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.

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

Barr, Amelia E.

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

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

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

Michalski, Stan

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

Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

11.

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

Lessing, Gotthold

12.

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

Proverb

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

Schillerbuch

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

21.

So I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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

Seneca

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

27.

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

28.

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

Temple, Sir William

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Bible

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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 make prayer a monologue -- make it a conversation.

33.

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Bible

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Rader, Lyell

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Indeed many things which we shall not be able to discover either by the experiment of works or by the investigations of reason we shall deserve to be taught by importunate prayer, by the revelation of divine inspiration.

Richard of Saint Victor

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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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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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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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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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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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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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

49.

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

Oscar Wilde