Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

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

Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Seneca

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

Robson, Dame Flora

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.

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

Proverb, English

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

Herbert, George

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

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

Michalski, Stan

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

Augustine, St.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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

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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

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

Seneca

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Wolpe, David J.

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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Socrates

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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 cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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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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My prayer to God is a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies look ridiculous! God has granted it.

Voltaire

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

Illich, Ivan

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Proverb, Indian

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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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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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Lawrence, Brother

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

Temple, Sir William

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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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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it.

Taylor, Jeremy

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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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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

Barr, Amelia E.