Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Meister Eckhart

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Schillerbuch

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

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

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

Rader, Lyell

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

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

Proverb, English

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

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

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

Hippocrates

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

Wolpe, David J.

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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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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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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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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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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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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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

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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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

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

Augustine, St.

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

Lessing, Doris

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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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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

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

Bible

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Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.

Herbert, George

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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Oscar Wilde

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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

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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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More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.