Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Wolpe, David J.

Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Michalski, Stan

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

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Socrates

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

Barr, Amelia E.

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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 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

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

Augustine, St.

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

Herbert, George

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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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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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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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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

G. E. Lessing

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us.

Bernanos, Georges

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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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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]

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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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Indeed many things which we shall not be able to discover either by the experiment of works or by the investigations of reason we shall deserve to be taught by importunate prayer, by the revelation of divine inspiration.

Richard of Saint Victor

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Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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

Seneca

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

Proverb

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

Illich, Ivan

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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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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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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Schillerbuch

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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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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