Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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

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

Augustine, St.

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

Rader, Lyell

Prayer is not a substitute for work, thinking, watching, suffering, or giving; prayer is a support for all other efforts.

Buttrick, George

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

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.

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

Lessing, Doris

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

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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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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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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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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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

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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Ask God's blessing on your work, but don't ask him to do it for you.

Robson, Dame Flora

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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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Practice in life whatever you pray for and God will give it to you more abundantly.

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Brault, Robert

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

Michalski, Stan

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

Juvenal

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Do not make prayer a monologue -- make it a conversation.

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

Schillerbuch

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Temple, Sir William

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Proverb

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

Bernanos, Georges

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