Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Herbert, George

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Proverb, Indian

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.

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

Voltaire

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

Cockburn, Alexander

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.

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

Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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

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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When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Proverb, English

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

Juvenal

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

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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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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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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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We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

Seneca

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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

Illich, Ivan

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

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

Wolpe, David J.

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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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

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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Barr, Amelia E.

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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 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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Practice in life whatever you pray for and God will give it to you more abundantly.

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

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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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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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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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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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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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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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One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.

G. E. Lessing

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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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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

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