Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

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

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

Bible

When a man has done all he can do, still there is a mighty, mysterious agency over which he needs influence to secure success. The one way he can reach it is by prayer.

Conwell, Russel H.

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

Illich, Ivan

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.

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

Robson, Dame Flora

Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

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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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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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 men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.

Meister Eckhart

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To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention -- on a landscape, a poem, a geometrical problem, an idol, or the True God -- that he completely forgets his own ego and desires, he is praying. The primary task of the schoolteacher is to teach children, in a secular context, the technique of prayer.

Auden, W. H.

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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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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Proverb, Indian

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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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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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Indeed many things which we shall not be able to discover either by the experiment of works or by the investigations of reason we shall deserve to be taught by importunate prayer, by the revelation of divine inspiration.

Richard of Saint Victor

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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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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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

Seneca

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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 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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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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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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A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.

Cockburn, Alexander

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

Augustine, St.

40.

Why is it when we talk to God, we're praying, but when God talks to us, we're schizophrenic?

Tomlin, Lily

41.

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

Bible

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

Rader, Lyell

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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Hippocrates

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

Michalski, Stan