Motivational Quotes

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.

- Brooks, Phillips

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Rader, Lyell

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.

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.

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

There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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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You can pray for someone even if you don't think God exists.

Real Live Preacher

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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

Proverb

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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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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

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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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 a passport to heaven. Your communication with God.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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

Seneca

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

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

Herbert, George

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Wolpe, David J.

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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 whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.

Meister Eckhart

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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.

Phillips Brooks

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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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

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