Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- G. E. Lessing

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Temple, Sir William

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Rader, Lyell

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

Barr, Amelia E.

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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

10.

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

Proverb, Jewish

11.

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

Proverb

12.

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

Proverb, English

13.

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

Seneca

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

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

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

Cockburn, Alexander

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When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.

Peale, Norman Vincent

21.

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

Tupper, Martin

23.

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

Brault, Robert

24.

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

25.

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

26.

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

27.

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

Juvenal

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

Proverb, Indian

30.

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

31.

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

Bible

32.

Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Illich, Ivan

35.

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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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 a passport to heaven. Your communication with God.

38.

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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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

40.

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

41.

Most men pray for power, the strength to do things. Few people pray for love, the quality to be someone.

Foster, Robert D.

42.

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

Real Live Preacher

43.

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

44.

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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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

46.

So I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

Bible

47.

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

Wolpe, David J.

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

Bible

49.

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

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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