Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Michalski, Stan

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

Illich, Ivan

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.

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

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

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

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

Tomlin, Lily

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.

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

Bible

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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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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

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

Buttrick, George

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Proverb

20.

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

Proverb, Indian

22.

Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Wolpe, David J.

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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 wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us.

Bernanos, Georges

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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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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

33.

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

Juvenal

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

Seneca

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

Herbert, George

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

Rader, Lyell

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

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

Cockburn, Alexander

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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.

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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Proverb, English

45.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Lessing, Gotthold