Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Pusey, Edward Bouverie

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Lessing, Doris

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

Schillerbuch

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

Proverb

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Voltaire

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

Barr, Amelia E.

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

Proverb, Indian

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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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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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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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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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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Seneca

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

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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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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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When a man has done all he can do, still there is a mighty, mysterious agency over which he needs influence to secure success. The one way he can reach it is by prayer.

Conwell, Russel H.

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We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them.

West, Charles C.

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

Herbert, George

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

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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

Juvenal

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

Rader, Lyell

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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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

Bible

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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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

Oscar Wilde

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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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

Michalski, Stan