Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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.

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Wolpe, David J.

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

Ask God's blessing on your work, but don't ask him to do it for you.

Robson, Dame Flora

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.

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.

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.

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

Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Juvenal

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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

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

Temple, Sir William

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

Rader, Lyell

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Cockburn, Alexander

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

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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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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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

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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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Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.

Herbert, George

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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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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes.

Hillesum, Etty

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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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

Illich, Ivan

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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