Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Real Live Preacher

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Proverb, Indian

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

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.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

Franklin, Benjamin

There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

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

Lessing, Doris

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

Proverb, English

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

Bible

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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

Juvenal

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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.

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

Socrates

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

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

Augustine, St.

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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 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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More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.

Twain, Mark

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

Herbert, George

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

Wolpe, David J.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Tupper, Martin

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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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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Proverb

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

Illich, Ivan

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