Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Cockburn, Alexander

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Augustine, St.

God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers and thrust the thing we have prayed for in our face, like a gauntlet with a gift in it.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Juvenal

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]

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

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If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.

Meister Eckhart

Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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

G. E. Lessing

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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

Rader, Lyell

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

Proverb

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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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When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't.

Temple, Sir William

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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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Pray that you will never have to bear all that you are able to endure.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Lessing, Doris

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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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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Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

Seneca

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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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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

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

Tupper, Martin

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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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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Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

Cohen, Leonard

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

Proverb, Indian

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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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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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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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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