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

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

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Buttrick, George

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

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

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

Seneca

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

Cockburn, Alexander

One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.

G. E. Lessing

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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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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11.

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

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12.

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

Illich, Ivan

13.

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

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15.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

16.

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

Hippocrates

18.

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

Augustine, St.

20.

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

Socrates

21.

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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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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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

24.

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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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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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

27.

Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

28.

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

Oscar Wilde

29.

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 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

32.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Baudelaire, Charles

34.

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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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

36.

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

Proverb, Jewish

37.

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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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 the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.

Tupper, Martin

40.

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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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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Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us.

Selden, John

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

Proverb

46.

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

47.

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

Schillerbuch

48.

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

49.

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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