Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Bernanos, Georges

Best Quotes about Prayer

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.

Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

Augustine, St.

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Wolpe, David J.

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

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

Herbert, George

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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

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

Schillerbuch

14.

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

Proverb, English

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Seneca

18.

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

19.

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

Illich, Ivan

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

27.

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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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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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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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 a passport to heaven. Your communication with God.

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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

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

Eckhart, Meister

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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

39.

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

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

Proverb

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

Rader, Lyell

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

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

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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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Pray that you will never have to bear all that you are able to endure.

Proverb, Jewish

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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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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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The time of business does not with me differ from the time of prayer, and in the noise and clatter of my kitchen, while several persons are at the same time calling for different things, I possess God as if I were upon my knees at the blessed sacrament.

Lawrence, Brother

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

Juvenal