Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

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]

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

Temple, Sir William

We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

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

Foster, Robert D.

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

Herbert, George

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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

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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 a passport to heaven. Your communication with God.

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

Barr, Amelia E.

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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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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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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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We are all weak, finite, simple human beings, standing in the need of prayer. None need it so much as those who think they are strong, those who know it not, but are deluded by self-sufficiency.

Phillips, Harold C.

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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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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

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

Hippocrates

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

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Your prayer must be for a sound mind in a sound body.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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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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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.