Motivational Quotes

Prayer

Most men pray for power, the strength to do things. Few people pray for love, the quality to be someone.

- Foster, Robert D.

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Bible

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

G. E. Lessing

We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Wolpe, David J.

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

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

Brault, Robert

Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

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

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

Lessing, Doris

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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]

Bible

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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

Bible

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

Proverb, English

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Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.

Tupper, Martin

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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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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We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

Seneca

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

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

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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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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

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

Proverb

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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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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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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

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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Augustine, St.

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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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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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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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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Temple, Sir William

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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

Rader, Lyell

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

O'Malley, Austin