Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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

Bible

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

Meister Eckhart

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.

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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

Lessing, Doris

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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.

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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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

Wolpe, David J.

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

Juvenal

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Illich, Ivan

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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.

Brooks, Phillips

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

Herbert, George

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Pray for what you want, but work for what you need.

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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Tupper, Martin

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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

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

Bible

28.

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

G. E. Lessing

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

30.

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

Rader, Lyell

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

Proverb, Indian

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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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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

34.

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

Bernanos, Georges

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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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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts let it not awaken like a frightened bird that flies about in dismay, but like a child waking from its sleep with a heavenly smile.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Seneca

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

Barr, Amelia E.

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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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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Schillerbuch

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

Temple, Sir William

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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

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