Motivational Quotes

Prayer

Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

- Proverb, Scottish

Best Quotes about Prayer

There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.

Hugo, Victor

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Tomlin, Lily

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

Rader, Lyell

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

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

Bernanos, Georges

Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.

Tupper, Martin

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

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

Temple, Sir William

11.

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

Illich, Ivan

12.

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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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

14.

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

Proverb

15.

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

G. E. Lessing

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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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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.

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

21.

Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

24.

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

Eckhart, Meister

25.

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

Proverb, Indian

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Schillerbuch

32.

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

Proverb

33.

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Herbert, George

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Indeed many things which we shall not be able to discover either by the experiment of works or by the investigations of reason we shall deserve to be taught by importunate prayer, by the revelation of divine inspiration.

Richard of Saint Victor

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Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.

Hemingway, Ernest

38.

We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Taylor, Jeremy

40.

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

Seneca

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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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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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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]

Bible

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

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

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

Michalski, Stan

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Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.