Motivational Quotes

Prayer

Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

- Tennyson, Lord Alfred

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Cockburn, Alexander

Don't put people down, unless it's on your prayer list.

Michalski, Stan

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

Seneca

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

To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention -- on a landscape, a poem, a geometrical problem, an idol, or the True God -- that he completely forgets his own ego and desires, he is praying. The primary task of the schoolteacher is to teach children, in a secular context, the technique of prayer.

Auden, W. H.

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

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

Bible

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

Juvenal

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

10.

Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

11.

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

Meister Eckhart

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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Schillerbuch

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Wolpe, David J.

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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Augustine, St.

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

Robson, Dame Flora

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

Rader, Lyell

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

Buttrick, George

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

Lessing, Doris

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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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Pray for what you want, but work for what you need.

36.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Brault, Robert

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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

39.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

O'Malley, Austin

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Pray. To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

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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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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