Motivational Quotes

Prayer

Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

- Teresa of Avila, St.

Best Quotes about Prayer

Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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.

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

G. E. Lessing

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

O'Malley, Austin

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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

Michalski, Stan

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

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

Proverb

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

Bible

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

Herbert, George

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

Brault, Robert

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

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 a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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

Proverb, English

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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Rader, Lyell

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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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There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God.

Illich, Ivan

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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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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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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

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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 translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

Cohen, Leonard