Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Brault, Robert

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

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

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.

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

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

Brault, Robert

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.

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

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

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

Proverb

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

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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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

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

Illich, Ivan

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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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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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

Augustine, St.

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

Socrates

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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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Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.

Barr, Amelia E.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Temple, Sir William

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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.

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Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.

O'Malley, Austin

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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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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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