Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Robson, Dame Flora

Best Quotes about Prayer

Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.

Cockburn, Alexander

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

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

Barr, Amelia E.

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

Real Live Preacher

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

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

Juvenal

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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

Wolpe, David J.

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

Michalski, Stan

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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

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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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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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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

Proverb, English

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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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]

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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

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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Herbert, George

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Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes.

Hillesum, Etty

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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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

Brault, Robert

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

Schillerbuch

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

Proverb

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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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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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

G. E. Lessing

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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.

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

Rader, Lyell

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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 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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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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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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Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

Cohen, Leonard