Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Prayer

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.

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

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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

Tupper, Martin

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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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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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

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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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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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Wolpe, David J.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Augustine, St.

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

Rader, Lyell

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

G. E. Lessing

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

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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 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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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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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

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

Juvenal

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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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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.