Motivational Quotes

Prayer

Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

- Proverb, Scottish

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Illich, Ivan

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Proverb, English

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

Michalski, Stan

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.

Do not make prayer a monologue -- make it a conversation.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb

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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 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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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

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

Wolpe, David J.

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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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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 a passport to heaven. Your communication with God.

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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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

Temple, Sir William

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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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Practice in life whatever you pray for and God will give it to you more abundantly.

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

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

Lessing, Doris

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

Brault, Robert

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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

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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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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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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]

Bible

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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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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

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

Voltaire