Motivational Quotes

Prayer

Short prayers reach heaven.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Juvenal

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]

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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

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

Schillerbuch

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

Seneca

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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

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

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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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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

Eckhart, Meister

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To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention -- on a landscape, a poem, a geometrical problem, an idol, or the True God -- that he completely forgets his own ego and desires, he is praying. The primary task of the schoolteacher is to teach children, in a secular context, the technique of prayer.

Auden, W. H.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Real Live Preacher

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

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My prayer to God is a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies look ridiculous! God has granted it.

Voltaire

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Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it.

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Tomlin, Lily

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When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Lessing, Doris

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

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

G. E. Lessing

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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Robson, Dame Flora

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

Lessing, Gotthold