Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Temple, Sir William

Best Quotes about Prayer

The influence of prayer on the human mind and body is as demonstrable as that of secreting glands. Its results can be measured in terms of increased physical buoyancy, greater intellectual vigor, moral stamina, and a deeper understanding of the realities underlying human relationships.

Carrel, Dr. Alex

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

Pilgrim, Peace

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

Most men pray for power, the strength to do things. Few people pray for love, the quality to be someone.

Foster, Robert D.

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

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.

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

Seneca

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

Robson, Dame Flora

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Proverb, English

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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

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

Wolpe, David J.

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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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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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

Seneca

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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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

Hippocrates

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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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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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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Proverb

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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

Bible

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

Augustine, St.

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

Herbert, George

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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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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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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