Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

Best Quotes about Prayer

When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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

Lessing, Doris

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

Hippocrates

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

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

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 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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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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Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.

O'Malley, Austin

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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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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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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Michalski, Stan

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

Illich, Ivan

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Tupper, Martin

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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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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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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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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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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Proverb

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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Augustine, St.

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

Brault, Robert

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

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

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