Motivational Quotes

Prayer

Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

My prayer to God is a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies look ridiculous! God has granted it.

Voltaire

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

G. E. Lessing

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

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.

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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If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.

Meister Eckhart

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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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Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Seneca

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Augustine, St.

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

Illich, Ivan

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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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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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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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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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

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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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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Schillerbuch

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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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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 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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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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

Proverb, English

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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

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

Hippocrates

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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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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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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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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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