Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

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

Bernanos, Georges

Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

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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.

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

Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

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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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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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Schillerbuch

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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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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Lessing, Doris

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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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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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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 a substitute for work, thinking, watching, suffering, or giving; prayer is a support for all other efforts.

Buttrick, George

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

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

Brault, Robert

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

Juvenal

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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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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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

Temple, Sir William

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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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When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.

Oscar Wilde

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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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 a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Tupper, Martin

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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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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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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Wolpe, David J.

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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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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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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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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