Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

Best Quotes about Prayer

A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.

Lessing, Gotthold

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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.

Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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

Herbert, George

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

Hippocrates

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

10.

One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.

G. E. Lessing

11.

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

Robson, Dame Flora

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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

13.

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

Cockburn, Alexander

15.

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

Illich, Ivan

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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Proverb

22.

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

Barr, Amelia E.

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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.

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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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.

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

Proverb

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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.

30.

Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Michalski, Stan

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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

37.

Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

38.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Proverb, English

42.

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

Juvenal

43.

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

Tomlin, Lily

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

Seneca

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

Lessing, Doris

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

Schillerbuch

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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 time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it.

Josh Billings