Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Michalski, Stan

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Proverb

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

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

Tupper, Martin

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

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Cockburn, Alexander

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

10.

Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

11.

Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

12.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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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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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

15.

God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers and thrust the thing we have prayed for in our face, like a gauntlet with a gift in it.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Bible

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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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

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

27.

Why is it when we talk to God, we're praying, but when God talks to us, we're schizophrenic?

Tomlin, Lily

28.

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

Augustine, St.

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Seneca

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

Rader, Lyell

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

Lessing, Doris

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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

42.

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

Hugo, Victor

43.

Take God for your spouse and friend and walk with him continually, and you will not sin and will learn to love, and the things you must do will work out prosperously for you.

John of the Cross, St.

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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

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

Michalski, Stan

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

Robson, Dame Flora