Motivational Quotes

Prayer

Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

- Teresa of Avila, St.

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

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

Brault, Robert

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

Oscar Wilde

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

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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

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.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Bible

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

Seneca

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

G. E. Lessing

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

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

Tupper, Martin

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

Proverb

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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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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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

Proverb, English

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

Lessing, Doris

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

Proverb, Indian

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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 an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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

Schillerbuch

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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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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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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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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 short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us.

Selden, John