Motivational Quotes

Prayer

Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Tomlin, Lily

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

More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.

Twain, Mark

Most men pray for power, the strength to do things. Few people pray for love, the quality to be someone.

Foster, Robert D.

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

Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.

Meister Eckhart

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

Illich, Ivan

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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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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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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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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Temple, Sir William

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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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Your prayer must be for a sound mind in a sound body.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bible

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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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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 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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Pray that you will never have to bear all that you are able to endure.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Augustine, St.

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Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts let it not awaken like a frightened bird that flies about in dismay, but like a child waking from its sleep with a heavenly smile.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Proverb

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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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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

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

Seneca

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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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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 the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.

Tupper, Martin

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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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We know little of the things for which we pray.