Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Baudelaire, Charles

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Hugo, Victor

Don't put people down, unless it's on your prayer list.

Michalski, Stan

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

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.

A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.

Cockburn, Alexander

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

Tupper, Martin

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

Schillerbuch

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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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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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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

Bible

22.

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

Oscar Wilde

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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Socrates

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

G. E. Lessing

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

Augustine, 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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Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

Gandhi, Mahatma

33.

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

Bible

34.

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

Illich, Ivan

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

Meister Eckhart

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

Proverb, Indian

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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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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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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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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

45.

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

Bible

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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

Rader, Lyell