Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Wolpe, David J.

Best Quotes about Prayer

Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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

Proverb

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Juvenal

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

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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

Tupper, Martin

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

Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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

Illich, Ivan

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Rader, Lyell

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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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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

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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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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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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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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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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Temple, Sir William

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Proverb, English

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Brault, Robert

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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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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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Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.

Pilgrim, Peace