Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

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Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Herbert, George

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

G. E. Lessing

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

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

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.

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

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

Wolpe, David J.

Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Pray. To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Socrates

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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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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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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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

Seneca

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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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The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us.

Bernanos, Georges

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

Temple, Sir William

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A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

Lessing, Doris

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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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Practice in life whatever you pray for and God will give it to you more abundantly.

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

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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 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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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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You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body.

Juvenal

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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

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

Proverb

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

Cockburn, Alexander

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Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

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

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

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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]

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

Brault, Robert