Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Lessing, Gotthold

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Bernanos, Georges

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.

Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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

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

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

Proverb

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

Meister Eckhart

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

Seneca

10.

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

11.

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

Robson, Dame Flora

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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

13.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

14.

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

Brault, Robert

15.

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

Oscar Wilde

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

18.

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

19.

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

Foster, Robert D.

20.

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

21.

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

Real Live Preacher

22.

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

Michalski, Stan

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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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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

25.

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

26.

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

G. E. Lessing

27.

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

Illich, Ivan

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

Seneca

29.

Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

30.

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

Temple, Sir William

31.

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

Bible

33.

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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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

35.

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

Wolpe, David J.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

39.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

40.

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

Hippocrates

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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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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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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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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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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

48.

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

Proverb, English

49.

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

Rader, Lyell