Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Herbert, George

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

Juvenal

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

Meister Eckhart

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

Real Live Preacher

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.

Prayer is not a substitute for work, thinking, watching, suffering, or giving; prayer is a support for all other efforts.

Buttrick, George

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

G. E. Lessing

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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The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Wolpe, David J.

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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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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

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

Proverb, Indian

21.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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

Lessing, Doris

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

Proverb

30.

Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

31.

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

Rader, Lyell

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

Schillerbuch

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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God.

Illich, Ivan

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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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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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God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers and thrust the thing we have prayed for in our face, like a gauntlet with a gift in it.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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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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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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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

42.

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

Oscar Wilde

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

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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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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 a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.

Gandhi, Mahatma

47.

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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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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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.