Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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.

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Tomlin, Lily

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.

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

O'Malley, Austin

So I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

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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]

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

G. E. Lessing

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

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

Barr, Amelia E.

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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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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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Ask God's blessing on your work, but don't ask him to do it for you.

Robson, Dame Flora

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

Schillerbuch

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

Temple, Sir William

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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

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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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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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The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Juvenal

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Michalski, Stan

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

Herbert, George

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

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

Proverb

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Illich, Ivan

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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.