Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Tupper, Martin

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Michalski, Stan

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

Bible

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

Lessing, Doris

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

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

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

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

Rader, Lyell

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

Barr, Amelia E.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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

Proverb

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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 and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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

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

Wolpe, David J.

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

Schillerbuch

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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.

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

G. E. Lessing

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

Brault, Robert

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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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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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But if it were I, I would appeal to God; I would lay my cause before Him. He performs wonders that cannot be fathomed, miracles that cannot be counted. [Job 5:8-9]

Bible

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

Real Live Preacher

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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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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Proverb

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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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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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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

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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Oscar Wilde

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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

Juvenal

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

Illich, Ivan

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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