Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

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

G. E. Lessing

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

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

Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Foster, Robert D.

Ask God's blessing on your work, but don't ask him to do it for you.

Robson, Dame Flora

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

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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

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

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

Tupper, Martin

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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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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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

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

Rader, Lyell

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Pray that you will never have to bear all that you are able to endure.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Voltaire

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Proverb

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

Brault, Robert

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

O'Malley, Austin

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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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Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us.

Selden, John

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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Seneca

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

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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