Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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.

Best Quotes about Prayer

Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Schillerbuch

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

Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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

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

Juvenal

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

Rader, Lyell

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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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If I regard wickedness in my heart the Lord will not hear. [Psalms 66:18]

Bible

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

Illich, Ivan

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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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If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.

Meister Eckhart

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

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it.

Josh Billings

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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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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 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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If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

Proverb

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Brault, Robert

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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

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

Seneca

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

Augustine, St.

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

Proverb

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

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

Tupper, Martin

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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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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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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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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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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 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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A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.

Cockburn, Alexander

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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.