Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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.

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

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

G. E. Lessing

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

The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us.

Bernanos, Georges

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

Augustine, St.

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Proverb

Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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

Proverb, English

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Rader, Lyell

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

Barr, Amelia E.

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

Temple, Sir William

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

Real Live Preacher

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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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

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

Seneca

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

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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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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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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Pray that you will never have to bear all that you are able to endure.

Proverb, Jewish

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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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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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

Illich, Ivan

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

Socrates

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

Michalski, Stan

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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. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.

Phillips Brooks

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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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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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