Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

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

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

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

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

Robson, Dame Flora

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.

Phillips Brooks

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

Proverb

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

Real Live Preacher

10.

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

Tupper, Martin

11.

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

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

Seneca

14.

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

15.

Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

16.

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]

Bible

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

21.

Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

22.

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

23.

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

Cockburn, Alexander

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

Bible

26.

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

Proverb, English

28.

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

Rader, Lyell

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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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

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

Lessing, Doris

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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

34.

One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.

G. E. Lessing

35.

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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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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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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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

40.

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

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Herbert, George

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

Eckhart, Meister