Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Oscar Wilde

Best Quotes about Prayer

The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

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

Rader, Lyell

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

O'Malley, Austin

Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.

Gide, Andre

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

Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Barr, Amelia E.

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

Wolpe, David J.

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Augustine, St.

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

Brault, Robert

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

G. E. Lessing

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

Seneca

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

Proverb

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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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

Illich, Ivan

31.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Your prayer must be for a sound mind in a sound body.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Proverb

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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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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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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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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Temple, Sir William

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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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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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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

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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.