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

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

Cockburn, Alexander

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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.

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

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

Wolpe, David J.

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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

Seneca

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

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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

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

Temple, Sir William

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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

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Take God for your spouse and friend and walk with him continually, and you will not sin and will learn to love, and the things you must do will work out prosperously for you.

John of the Cross, St.

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

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

Seneca

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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. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.

Phillips Brooks

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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 are all weak, finite, simple human beings, standing in the need of prayer. None need it so much as those who think they are strong, those who know it not, but are deluded by self-sufficiency.

Phillips, Harold C.

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

Proverb

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

Bernanos, Georges

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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Brault, Robert

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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Proverb, Indian

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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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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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

Lessing, Doris