Motivational Quotes

Prayer

There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Prayer

We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Franklin, Benjamin

So I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

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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

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 a passport to heaven. Your communication with God.

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

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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

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

Voltaire

11.

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

Proverb, English

12.

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

15.

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Hippocrates

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

Illich, Ivan

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

Proverb

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

Proverb

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Juvenal

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

G. E. Lessing

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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

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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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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 to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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

Augustine, St.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

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. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.

Phillips Brooks

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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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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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

48.

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

Seneca

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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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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