Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Eckhart, Meister

Best Quotes about Prayer

Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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.

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

Wolpe, David J.

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

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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

Real Live Preacher

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

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

Proverb, English

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

Illich, Ivan

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

Tupper, Martin

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

Temple, Sir William

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

19.

We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Barr, Amelia E.

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

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

Seneca

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

Seneca

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

Proverb, Indian

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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

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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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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Michalski, Stan

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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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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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Most men pray for power, the strength to do things. Few people pray for love, the quality to be someone.

Foster, Robert D.

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

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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

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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Proverb

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

Schillerbuch

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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