Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Lessing, Gotthold

Best Quotes about Prayer

Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Schillerbuch

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Wolpe, David J.

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

Brault, Robert

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

Cohen, Leonard

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

Tupper, Martin

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

Bible

11.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

12.

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

Temple, Sir William

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Barr, Amelia E.

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

22.

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

Lessing, Gotthold

24.

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

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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Robson, Dame Flora

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

Seneca

28.

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

Rader, Lyell

29.

To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention -- on a landscape, a poem, a geometrical problem, an idol, or the True God -- that he completely forgets his own ego and desires, he is praying. The primary task of the schoolteacher is to teach children, in a secular context, the technique of prayer.

Auden, W. H.

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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Taylor, Jeremy

32.

Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

33.

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

G. E. Lessing

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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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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We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them.

West, Charles C.

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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

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

41.

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

Proverb

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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