Motivational Quotes

Prayer

Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

- Teresa of Avila, St.

Best Quotes about Prayer

Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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

Hippocrates

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

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

Wolpe, David J.

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

Bible

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

Barr, Amelia E.

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.

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

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

Proverb, English

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

Brault, Robert

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

Herbert, George

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

Michalski, Stan

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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

Illich, Ivan

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

Temple, Sir William

21.

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

Cohen, Leonard

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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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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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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 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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A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.

Cockburn, Alexander

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

Augustine, St.

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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Why is it when we talk to God, we're praying, but when God talks to us, we're schizophrenic?

Tomlin, Lily

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Bible

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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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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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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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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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