Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Lessing, Doris

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Meister Eckhart

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Juvenal

Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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

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

Cockburn, Alexander

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

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

Practice in life whatever you pray for and God will give it to you more abundantly.

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

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

Proverb

14.

Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Brault, Robert

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

Michalski, Stan

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

23.

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

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

30.

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

Proverb, Jewish

31.

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

Lessing, Gotthold

32.

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

Rader, Lyell

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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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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

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

Real Live Preacher

39.

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

40.

Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Robson, Dame Flora

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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

43.

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

Temple, Sir William

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Do not make prayer a monologue -- make it a conversation.

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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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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

Bible

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

Proverb, Indian

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

G. E. Lessing