Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Rader, Lyell

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

Herbert, George

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Temple, Sir William

Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Tomlin, Lily

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

Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Richard of Saint Victor

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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

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

Barr, Amelia E.

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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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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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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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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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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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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Wolpe, David J.

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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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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Proverb

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Foster, Robert D.

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

Schillerbuch

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

G. E. Lessing

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

Oscar Wilde

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

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

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

Augustine, St.

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

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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

Robson, Dame Flora

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