Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

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

Proverb

Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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

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

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

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.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Bernanos, Georges

10.

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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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

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

G. E. Lessing

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

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

Baudelaire, Charles

17.

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

Bible

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

Bible

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

Proverb, Indian

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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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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Seneca

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

Robson, Dame Flora

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

Seneca

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Brault, Robert

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Hippocrates

41.

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

Temple, Sir 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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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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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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Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

Augustine, St.

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

Tupper, Martin

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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.