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

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

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.

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

Wolpe, David J.

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

Juvenal

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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

Foster, Robert D.

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

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

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

Robson, Dame Flora

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

Herbert, George

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

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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

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

Rader, Lyell

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Your prayer must be for a sound mind in a sound body.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Lessing, Doris

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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

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

Proverb

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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

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

Seneca

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Tupper, Martin

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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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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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You can pray for someone even if you don't think God exists.

Real Live Preacher

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Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Schillerbuch

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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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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

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

Proverb, English

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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Hugo, Victor