Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Illich, Ivan

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

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.

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

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

Socrates

Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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

Seneca

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

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

G. E. Lessing

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Michalski, Stan

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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]

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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Juvenal

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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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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

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

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

Herbert, George

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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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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 from prayer that the spirit's victory springs.

Schillerbuch

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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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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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More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.

Twain, Mark

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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Illich, Ivan

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

Augustine, St.

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When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't.

Temple, Sir William

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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Robson, Dame Flora

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

Proverb, English

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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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When a man has done all he can do, still there is a mighty, mysterious agency over which he needs influence to secure success. The one way he can reach it is by prayer.

Conwell, Russel H.