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

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

Schillerbuch

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

Proverb

Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Illich, Ivan

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Seneca

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

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

Pray that you will never have to bear all that you are able to endure.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Bible

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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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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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

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

G. E. Lessing

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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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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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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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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. To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Herbert, George

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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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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

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

Proverb

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

Wolpe, David J.

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Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

Seneca

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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 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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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.