Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Illich, Ivan

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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

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

Rader, Lyell

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Cockburn, Alexander

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

Bible

11.

So I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

Bible

12.

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

Meister Eckhart

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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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The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us.

Bernanos, Georges

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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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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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]

Bible

20.

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

Schillerbuch

21.

Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

22.

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

Seneca

23.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Wolpe, David J.

28.

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

29.

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.

30.

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

Oscar Wilde

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

G. E. Lessing

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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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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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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.

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The fates are not quite obdurate; they have a grim, sardonic way of granting them who supplicate the thing they wanted yesterday.

Montgomery, Roselle Mercier

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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Augustine, St.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Proverb

40.

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

Lessing, Doris

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

Illich, Ivan

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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

44.

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 entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Tupper, Martin

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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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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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

Proverb, Indian