Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Constantine Peter Cavafy

Best Quotes about Prayer

If this obstacle is from Thee, Lord, I accept it; but if it is from Satan, I refuse him and all his works in the name of Calvary.

Kuhn, Isobel

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.

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

Your prayer must be for a sound mind in a sound body.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.

Barr, Amelia E.

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.

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.

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

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

Michalski, Stan

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Proverb

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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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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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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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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

G. E. Lessing

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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.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Proverb, English

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Wolpe, David J.

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

O'Malley, Austin

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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Rader, Lyell

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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

Lessing, Doris