Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

Best Quotes about Prayer

Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

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

Voltaire

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

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

Proverb

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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

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.

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

Seneca

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bible

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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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Prayer is a passport to heaven. Your communication with God.

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

Buttrick, George

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Lessing, Doris

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Brault, Robert

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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Oscar Wilde

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Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

Socrates

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Wolpe, David J.

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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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

Cockburn, Alexander

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Temple, Sir William

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Augustine, 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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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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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Lessing, Gotthold