Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Eckhart, Meister

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Illich, Ivan

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

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

Robson, Dame Flora

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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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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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

12.

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

Rader, Lyell

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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Brault, Robert

22.

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

Barr, Amelia E.

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

Augustine, St.

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

Hippocrates

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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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

O'Malley, Austin

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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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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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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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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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Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord by ceasing to pray for you, but I will instruct you in the good and right way. [I Samuel 12:23]

Bible

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

Juvenal

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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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We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

Seneca

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

Bible

41.

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Lessing, Doris

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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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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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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