Motivational Quotes

Prayer

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Rader, Lyell

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

Augustine, St.

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

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

Oscar Wilde

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

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.

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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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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Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

Socrates

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

Proverb

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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

Brault, Robert

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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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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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Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Seneca

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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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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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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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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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We are all weak, finite, simple human beings, standing in the need of prayer. None need it so much as those who think they are strong, those who know it not, but are deluded by self-sufficiency.

Phillips, Harold C.

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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

Proverb

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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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.

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