Motivational Quotes

Prayer

Short prayers reach heaven.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Prayer

Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.

Barr, Amelia E.

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

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

Why is it when we talk to God, we're praying, but when God talks to us, we're schizophrenic?

Tomlin, Lily

Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Meister Eckhart

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

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

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

Robson, Dame Flora

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Brault, Robert

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

Rader, Lyell

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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

21.

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

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Temple, Sir William

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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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If I regard wickedness in my heart the Lord will not hear. [Psalms 66:18]

Bible

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Schillerbuch

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

Wolpe, David J.

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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Tupper, Martin

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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

Herbert, George

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

Juvenal

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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Seneca

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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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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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Ask God for what man can give, and you may get it.

Proverb, English

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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

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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Hippocrates