Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Tomlin, Lily

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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

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

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

Seneca

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

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

Bible

Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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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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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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

Eckhart, Meister

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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Bible

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Hippocrates

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Proverb

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

Rader, Lyell

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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

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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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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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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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Proverb

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

Wolpe, David J.

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

Oscar Wilde

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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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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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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