Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

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

Proverb

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Brault, Robert

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

Schillerbuch

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

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

Meister Eckhart

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

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

Cockburn, Alexander

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

Eckhart, Meister

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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Temple, Sir William

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

Bible

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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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

Oscar Wilde

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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.

Bible

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

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

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

Seneca

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

Juvenal

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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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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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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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

G. E. Lessing

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Proverb, Indian

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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

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

Herbert, George

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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