Motivational Quotes

Prayer

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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

Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Bible

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Michalski, Stan

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

10.

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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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

12.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

16.

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

Socrates

17.

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

Real Live Preacher

18.

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

Hippocrates

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bible

25.

Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

26.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

28.

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

Brault, Robert

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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

Schillerbuch

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

Juvenal

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

Seneca

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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

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

Barr, Amelia E.

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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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Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.

Milton, John

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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish