Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Peale, Norman Vincent

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

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

Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

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

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

Augustine, St.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Hippocrates

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

10.

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

Cockburn, Alexander

11.

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

12.

Pray. To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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.

14.

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

G. E. Lessing

15.

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.

16.

Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

17.

All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother. I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

Lincoln, Abraham

18.

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

Juvenal

19.

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.

20.

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

Foster, Robert D.

21.

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

Wolpe, David J.

22.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Tupper, Martin

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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

27.

Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

28.

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

Bible

29.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

30.

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

31.

When we take one step toward to God, he takes seven steps toward us.

Proverb, Indian

32.

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

Robson, Dame Flora

33.

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

35.

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

Lessing, Doris

36.

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

Eckhart, Meister

37.

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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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 confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.

Gandhi, Mahatma

40.

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

Bernanos, Georges

41.

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

42.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

43.

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

Proverb, Jewish

44.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

48.

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

49.

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

Michalski, Stan

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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