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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Bible

Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

If this obstacle is from Thee, Lord, I accept it; but if it is from Satan, I refuse him and all his works in the name of Calvary.

Kuhn, Isobel

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

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

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

Meister Eckhart

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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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.

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

Lessing, Doris

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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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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Schillerbuch

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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

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

Proverb, English

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Barr, Amelia E.

27.

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

Bible

28.

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

Illich, Ivan

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

Proverb

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

Herbert, George

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

Augustine, St.

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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

Seneca

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

Juvenal

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

Temple, Sir William

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Tupper, Martin

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Take God for your spouse and friend and walk with him continually, and you will not sin and will learn to love, and the things you must do will work out prosperously for you.

John of the Cross, St.

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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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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