Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Temple, Sir William

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.

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

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.

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

Cohen, Leonard

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

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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.

There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.

Hugo, Victor

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]

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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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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Illich, Ivan

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

Lessing, Doris

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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

Tupper, Martin

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

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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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More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.

Twain, Mark

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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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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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 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

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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 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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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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It is good to pray for the repair of mistakes, but praying earlier would keep us from making so many. When puzzled, go to prayer and listen.

Macaulay, J. C.

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

Schillerbuch

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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

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Cockburn, Alexander

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

Herbert, George

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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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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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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

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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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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That prayer has great power which a person makes with all his might. It makes a sour heart sweet, a sad heart merry, a poor heart rich, a foolish heart wise, a timid heart brave, a sick heart well, a blind heart full of sight, a cold heart ardent. It draws down the great God into the little heart; it drives the hungry soul up into the fullness of God; it brings together two lovers, God and the soul, in a wondrous place where they speak much of love.

Magheburg, Mechthild of

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

Franklin, Benjamin