Motivational Quotes

Prayer

Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

- Proverb, Russian

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

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.

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.

Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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

Bible

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

Voltaire

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Rader, Lyell

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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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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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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Lessing, Doris

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

Herbert, George

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

Augustine, St.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Cockburn, Alexander

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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. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.

Phillips Brooks

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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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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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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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There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Wolpe, David J.

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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Brault, Robert

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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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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

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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

Seneca