Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

Best Quotes about Prayer

My prayer to God is a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies look ridiculous! God has granted it.

Voltaire

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

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

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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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.

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

Barr, Amelia E.

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

Michalski, Stan

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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

Socrates

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Seneca

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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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Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Oscar Wilde

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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

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

Herbert, George

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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

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

Wolpe, David J.

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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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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If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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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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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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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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

Augustine, St.

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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Temple, Sir William

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

Illich, Ivan

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

Brault, Robert

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

Tupper, Martin

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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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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