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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Lessing, Gotthold

Ask God for what man can give, and you may get it.

Proverb, English

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

Meister Eckhart

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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

11.

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

Barr, Amelia E.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

17.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

20.

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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

Seneca

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

Seneca

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Bible

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

G. E. Lessing

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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.

35.

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.

Tupper, Martin

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Herbert, George

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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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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma