Motivational Quotes

Prayer

My prayer to God is a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies look ridiculous! God has granted it.

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Prayer

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 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

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

Seneca

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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.

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

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

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Meister Eckhart

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

Michalski, Stan

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

Socrates

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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

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Prayer is a passport to heaven. Your communication with God.

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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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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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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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Proverb

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

Illich, Ivan

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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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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Cockburn, Alexander

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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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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Hippocrates

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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.

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

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

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

Juvenal

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It is from prayer that the spirit's victory springs.

Schillerbuch

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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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