Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Lessing, Doris

Best Quotes about Prayer

We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

G. E. Lessing

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

Temple, Sir William

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.

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

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

So I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

Bible

Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Michalski, Stan

10.

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

Socrates

11.

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

Rader, Lyell

12.

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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If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

Eckhart, Meister

14.

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

Proverb

15.

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

Proverb, Indian

16.

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

Proverb

17.

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

O'Malley, Austin

18.

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

Bernanos, Georges

19.

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

20.

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

Tupper, Martin

21.

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

Cockburn, Alexander

25.

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

Illich, Ivan

26.

When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.

Oscar Wilde

27.

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

Schillerbuch

28.

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

Hippocrates

29.

Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

30.

Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

31.

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

Voltaire

32.

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

33.

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

Cohen, Leonard

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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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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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There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

37.

Pray. To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

Bierce, Ambrose

38.

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]

Bible

39.

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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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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Prayer is not a substitute for work, thinking, watching, suffering, or giving; prayer is a support for all other efforts.

Buttrick, George

42.

Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

43.

There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.

Hugo, Victor

44.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

45.

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]

Bible

46.

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

Wolpe, David J.

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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

Juvenal