Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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

We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Rader, Lyell

Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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

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

Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Augustine, St.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Brault, Robert

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

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

Lessing, Doris

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

Proverb

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

Tupper, Martin

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

Proverb

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

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

Michalski, Stan

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

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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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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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Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

Socrates

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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 a passport to heaven. Your communication with God.

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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.

Bible

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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]

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

Seneca

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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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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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Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Proverb, Indian

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Pray for what you want, but work for what you need.