Motivational Quotes

Prayer

There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Prayer

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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

G. E. Lessing

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

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

Juvenal

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

Proverb, English

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

Schillerbuch

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

Illich, Ivan

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

Seneca

10.

There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

11.

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

Lessing, Gotthold

12.

Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

13.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

14.

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

Seneca

15.

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

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

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

Bible

18.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

19.

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

Bible

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

Michalski, Stan

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

27.

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

28.

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 confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Tupper, Martin

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

Hippocrates

32.

Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

33.

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

Cockburn, Alexander

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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

35.

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Barr, Amelia E.

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

Herbert, George

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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 to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

49.

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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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