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Prayer

Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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Best Quotes about Prayer

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

G. E. Lessing

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

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

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

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

Seneca

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

Seneca

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

Bible

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

O'Malley, Austin

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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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

11.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Schillerbuch

13.

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

Temple, Sir William

14.

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.

15.

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

Bible

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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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There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.

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

Socrates

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Herbert, George

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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 not a substitute for work, thinking, watching, suffering, or giving; prayer is a support for all other efforts.

Buttrick, George

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

Illich, Ivan

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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

28.

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]

Bible

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.

Twain, Mark

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

40.

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

Juvenal

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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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

Robson, Dame Flora

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The fates are not quite obdurate; they have a grim, sardonic way of granting them who supplicate the thing they wanted yesterday.

Montgomery, Roselle Mercier

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Proverb, English

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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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