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

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

Lessing, Gotthold

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

Tupper, Martin

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

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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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Foster, Robert D.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Wolpe, David J.

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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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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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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 a passport to heaven. Your communication with God.

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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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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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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

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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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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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If I told you what it takes to reach the highest high you'd laugh and say nothing that simple, but you've been told many times before messiah's point you to the door though no one's got the guts to leave the temple.

Townsend, Peter

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

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

Augustine, St.

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

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

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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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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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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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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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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.

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

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

Real Live Preacher

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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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

Seneca

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

Seneca

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Proverb, Indian