Motivational Quotes

Prayer

Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

- Tennyson, Lord Alfred

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

O'Malley, Austin

Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Schillerbuch

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

Proverb, English

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Juvenal

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

G. E. Lessing

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

Illich, Ivan

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Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Seneca

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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

Hippocrates

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

22.

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

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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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

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God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers and thrust the thing we have prayed for in our face, like a gauntlet with a gift in it.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Temple, Sir William

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

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Socrates

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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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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.

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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]

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

Brault, Robert

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

Wolpe, David J.

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

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

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

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

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A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.

Lessing, Gotthold

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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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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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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.