Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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.

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

Bible

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

Schillerbuch

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.

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

Prayer is not a substitute for work, thinking, watching, suffering, or giving; prayer is a support for all other efforts.

Buttrick, George

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Barr, Amelia E.

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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]

Bible

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

Eckhart, Meister

15.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Brault, Robert

19.

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

Bible

20.

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

Proverb

21.

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

Wolpe, David J.

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Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

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

Illich, Ivan

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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

28.

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

Robson, Dame Flora

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

35.

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

37.

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

Proverb, English

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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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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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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

41.

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

Hugo, Victor

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

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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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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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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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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