Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Foster, Robert D.

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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

Voltaire

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

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Temple, Sir William

No one can pray well, but those who live well.

Proverb

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

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

Proverb

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

Tupper, Martin

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

Brault, Robert

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

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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 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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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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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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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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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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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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Schillerbuch

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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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 turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them.

West, Charles C.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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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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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.