Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Lessing, Doris

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Schillerbuch

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

Hippocrates

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Proverb

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

Juvenal

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

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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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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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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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.

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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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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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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

16.

Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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

G. E. Lessing

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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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If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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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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The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

27.

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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There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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It is good to pray for the repair of mistakes, but praying earlier would keep us from making so many. When puzzled, go to prayer and listen.

Macaulay, J. C.

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Real Live Preacher

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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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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Seneca

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

Augustine, St.

39.

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

Illich, Ivan

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

42.

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

Bible

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

Seneca

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

Brault, Robert

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

Tupper, Martin

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

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

Proverb