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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

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

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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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

Bible

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

10.

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

Proverb, English

11.

Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Brault, Robert

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

Augustine, St.

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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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If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.

Meister Eckhart

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

Lessing, Doris

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

Herbert, George

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

Illich, Ivan

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

G. E. Lessing

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

Temple, Sir William

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

Seneca

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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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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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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

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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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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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One hour in the execution of justice is worth seventy years of prayer.

Proverb

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

Bible

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

O'Malley, Austin

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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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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body.

Juvenal

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

Rader, Lyell

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

Cockburn, Alexander

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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