Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

Best Quotes about Prayer

Why is it when we talk to God, we're praying, but when God talks to us, we're schizophrenic?

Tomlin, Lily

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

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Buttrick, George

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

Socrates

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

O'Malley, Austin

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.

Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Temple, Sir William

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

Cockburn, Alexander

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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Real Live Preacher

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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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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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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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Augustine, St.

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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Rader, Lyell

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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

Seneca

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

Bernanos, Georges

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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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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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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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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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

Bible

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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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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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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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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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Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.

Herbert, George

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

Juvenal

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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.