Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

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

There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.

Hugo, Victor

So I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

Bible

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

Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Augustine, St.

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

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother. I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Seneca

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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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Townsend, Peter

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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

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Michalski, Stan

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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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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

Hippocrates

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

Proverb

29.

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

Proverb

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

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

Illich, Ivan

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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Temple, Sir William

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

Seneca

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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

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

Proverb, English

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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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Why is it when we talk to God, we're praying, but when God talks to us, we're schizophrenic?

Tomlin, Lily