Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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.

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

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

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

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

Ask God for what man can give, and you may get it.

Proverb, English

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

Socrates

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

Hugo, Victor

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

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

Seneca

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Brault, Robert

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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

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

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

Herbert, George

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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

Schillerbuch

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

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

Proverb

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

Juvenal

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A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

Lessing, Doris

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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Temple, Sir William

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