Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Rader, Lyell

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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

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

Proverb, English

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Schillerbuch

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

Seneca

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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

Meister Eckhart

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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Oscar Wilde

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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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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.

Brooks, Phillips

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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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Short prayers reach heaven.

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

Barr, Amelia E.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Michalski, Stan

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

Socrates

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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.

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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

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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Robson, Dame Flora

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

Illich, Ivan

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

Rader, Lyell

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

Proverb

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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 and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Proverb, Indian