Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Proverb, English

Best Quotes about Prayer

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.

Bible

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

Seneca

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

Juvenal

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

Illich, Ivan

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Proverb

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

10.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

11.

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

12.

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

Proverb, Indian

13.

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

G. E. Lessing

14.

Ask God's blessing on your work, but don't ask him to do it for you.

Robson, Dame Flora

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

Seneca

16.

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

Augustine, St.

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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

18.

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

Proverb, Jewish

19.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

20.

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

21.

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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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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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]

Bible

24.

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

Proverb

25.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

27.

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

Lessing, Doris

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

Bible

30.

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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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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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.

33.

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

Voltaire

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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

35.

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

Bible

36.

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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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

40.

Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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

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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

43.

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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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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If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.

Meister Eckhart

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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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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

48.

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

Temple, Sir William

49.

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

Proverb, English