Motivational Quotes

Prayer

When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't.

- Temple, Sir William

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

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.

Most men pray for power, the strength to do things. Few people pray for love, the quality to be someone.

Foster, Robert D.

Why is it when we talk to God, we're praying, but when God talks to us, we're schizophrenic?

Tomlin, Lily

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.

Tupper, Martin

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

Augustine, St.

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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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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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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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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

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

Lessing, Doris

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Wolpe, David J.

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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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

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If I regard wickedness in my heart the Lord will not hear. [Psalms 66:18]

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

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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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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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

Proverb, Indian

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When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

G. E. Lessing

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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Illich, Ivan

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

Schillerbuch

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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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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

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

Juvenal

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

Seneca

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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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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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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