Motivational Quotes

Prayer

To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention -- on a landscape, a poem, a geometrical problem, an idol, or the True God -- that he completely forgets his own ego and desires, he is praying. The primary task of the schoolteacher is to teach children, in a secular context, the technique of prayer.

- Auden, W. H.

Best Quotes about Prayer

My prayer to God is a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies look ridiculous! God has granted it.

Voltaire

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

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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

Tupper, Martin

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

Most men pray for power, the strength to do things. Few people pray for love, the quality to be someone.

Foster, Robert D.

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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

Rader, Lyell

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

Lessing, Doris

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

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Tomlin, Lily

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

Juvenal

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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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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Herbert, George

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Proverb

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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Phillips Brooks

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To be sure, this requires effort and love, a careful cultivation of the spiritual life, and a watchful, honest, active oversight of all one's mental attitudes towards things and people. It is not to be learned by world-flight, running away from things, turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, one must learn an inner solitude, where or with whomsoever he may be. He must learn to penetrate things and find God there, to get a strong impression of God firmly fixed on his mind.

Eckhart, Meister

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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Schillerbuch

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

Bible

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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

Proverb, English

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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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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Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.

Barr, Amelia E.

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

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

Buttrick, George