Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Herbert, George

Best Quotes about Prayer

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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

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

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

Proverb

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

Temple, Sir William

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

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

Don't put people down, unless it's on your prayer list.

Michalski, Stan

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

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

Brault, Robert

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

Proverb, Indian

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Ask God for what man can give, and you may get it.

Proverb, English

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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Wolpe, David J.

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

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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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Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

Augustine, St.

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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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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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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 a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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]

Bible

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Oscar Wilde

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If you can't pray a door open, don't pry it open.

Rader, Lyell

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

O'Malley, Austin

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Take God for your spouse and friend and walk with him continually, and you will not sin and will learn to love, and the things you must do will work out prosperously for you.

John of the Cross, St.

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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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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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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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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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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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If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.

Meister Eckhart

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

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

Proverb

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

Lessing, Doris