Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Prayer

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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

Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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

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

Meister Eckhart

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

Socrates

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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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 a substitute for work, thinking, watching, suffering, or giving; prayer is a support for all other efforts.

Buttrick, George

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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.

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

Augustine, St.

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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

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

Temple, Sir William

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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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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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Rader, Lyell

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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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There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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

Lessing, Doris

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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

Herbert, George

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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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We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

Seneca

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

Seneca

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

Proverb, Indian

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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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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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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.

Brooks, Phillips

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

Eckhart, Meister