Motivational Quotes

Prayer

Pray. To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Socrates

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

Cohen, Leonard

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

Michalski, Stan

Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

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

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

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

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

Augustine, St.

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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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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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Ask God's blessing on your work, but don't ask him to do it for you.

Robson, Dame Flora

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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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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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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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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.

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

Hippocrates

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All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother. I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Rader, Lyell

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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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

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

Bible

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

Lessing, Doris

31.

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

Seneca

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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

Herbert, George

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

Oscar Wilde

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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.

42.

Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

43.

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

Proverb, Indian

44.

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

Schillerbuch

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

Proverb, English

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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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