Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Barr, Amelia E.

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.

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.

You must pray that the way be long, full of adventures and experiences.

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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

Hugo, Victor

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

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.

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

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

Proverb, Indian

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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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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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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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Practice in life whatever you pray for and God will give it to you more abundantly.

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

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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.

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

Illich, Ivan

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

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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

Meister Eckhart

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

O'Malley, Austin

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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

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

Proverb

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

Juvenal

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

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

Cockburn, Alexander

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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

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

Real Live Preacher

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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Temple, Sir William

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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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

Seneca

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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Magheburg, Mechthild of

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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