Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions.

Brault, Robert

We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Bible

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Cockburn, Alexander

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

Proverb, Indian

11.

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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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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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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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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No one can pray well, but those who live well.

Proverb

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

Bernanos, Georges

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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.

Bible

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

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

Temple, Sir William

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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

Proverb

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Bible

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

Rader, Lyell

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

Herbert, George

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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Seneca

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

Hippocrates

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

Juvenal

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

Schillerbuch

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

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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Seneca

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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