Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Lessing, Gotthold

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

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

Pray that you will never have to bear all that you are able to endure.

Proverb, Jewish

Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Schillerbuch

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.

Peale, Norman Vincent

Most men pray for power, the strength to do things. Few people pray for love, the quality to be someone.

Foster, Robert D.

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

Rader, Lyell

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Buttrick, George

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

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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

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

Michalski, Stan

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

Tupper, Martin

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

Socrates

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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

Proverb

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

G. E. Lessing

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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.

Meister Eckhart

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Augustine, St.

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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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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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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Juvenal

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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 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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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 and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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

49.

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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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