Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Foster, Robert D.

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

We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Michalski, Stan

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

Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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

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

Schillerbuch

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Rader, Lyell

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Meister Eckhart

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

Proverb, Jewish

18.

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

Proverb

21.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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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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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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

Tupper, Martin

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Wolpe, David J.

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

Juvenal

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

Hippocrates

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

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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

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

Lessing, Doris

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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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Indeed many things which we shall not be able to discover either by the experiment of works or by the investigations of reason we shall deserve to be taught by importunate prayer, by the revelation of divine inspiration.

Richard of Saint Victor

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

Temple, Sir William

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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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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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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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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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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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

Proverb, Indian