Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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

Bible

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

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

Lessing, Doris

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

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

Bible

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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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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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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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

Cockburn, Alexander

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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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The time of business does not with me differ from the time of prayer, and in the noise and clatter of my kitchen, while several persons are at the same time calling for different things, I possess God as if I were upon my knees at the blessed sacrament.

Lawrence, Brother

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

Michalski, Stan

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

Brault, Robert

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

Juvenal

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

Proverb

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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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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 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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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.

42.

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 a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Common people do not pray; they only beg.