Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Pilgrim, Peace

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Temple, Sir William

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

Hippocrates

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

Bible

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Bernanos, Georges

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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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The fates are not quite obdurate; they have a grim, sardonic way of granting them who supplicate the thing they wanted yesterday.

Montgomery, Roselle Mercier

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

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

Illich, Ivan

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

G. E. Lessing

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

Tupper, Martin

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

Augustine, St.

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Lessing, Doris

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

Eckhart, Meister

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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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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.

Gide, Andre

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

Brault, Robert

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

Meister Eckhart

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

Schillerbuch

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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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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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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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 time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it.

Josh Billings

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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

Herbert, George

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