Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- O'Malley, Austin

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Lessing, Doris

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

Tomlin, Lily

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

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

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

Franklin, Benjamin

Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

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

Herbert, George

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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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

Bernanos, Georges

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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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You must pray that the way be long, full of adventures and experiences.

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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

Hippocrates

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My prayer to God is a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies look ridiculous! God has granted it.

Voltaire

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

Illich, Ivan

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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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

G. E. Lessing

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

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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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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Proverb, English

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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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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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When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't.

Temple, Sir William

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

Bible

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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Seneca