Motivational Quotes

Prayer

The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us.

- Bernanos, Georges

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

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

Illich, Ivan

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

Bible

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

G. E. Lessing

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Proverb

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Temple, Sir William

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

Cockburn, Alexander

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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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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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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

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

Proverb

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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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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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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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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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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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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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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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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Meister Eckhart

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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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The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us.

Bernanos, Georges

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

Michalski, Stan

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

Lessing, Doris

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

Tupper, Martin

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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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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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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.