Motivational Quotes

Prayer

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

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

Proverb, Indian

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

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.

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

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Oscar Wilde

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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Brault, Robert

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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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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 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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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]

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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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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Illich, Ivan

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

Real Live Preacher

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

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

Schillerbuch

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

Rader, Lyell

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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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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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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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 know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

Augustine, St.

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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Meister Eckhart

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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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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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

Juvenal

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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

Lessing, Doris

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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 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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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William