Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Rader, Lyell

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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

Seneca

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

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

There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.

Hugo, Victor

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

Illich, Ivan

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

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]

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Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it.

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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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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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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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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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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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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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]

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

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

Herbert, George

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

Lessing, Doris

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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Augustine, St.

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

Michalski, Stan

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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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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Brault, Robert

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

Wolpe, David J.

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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Proverb, Indian

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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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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 man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Juvenal

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

Schillerbuch

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

Real Live Preacher

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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.

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

Robson, Dame Flora

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

Proverb

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