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

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

Hippocrates

That prayer has great power which a person makes with all his might. It makes a sour heart sweet, a sad heart merry, a poor heart rich, a foolish heart wise, a timid heart brave, a sick heart well, a blind heart full of sight, a cold heart ardent. It draws down the great God into the little heart; it drives the hungry soul up into the fullness of God; it brings together two lovers, God and the soul, in a wondrous place where they speak much of love.

Magheburg, Mechthild of

The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions.

Brault, Robert

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

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

Lessing, Doris

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

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

Cockburn, Alexander

Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Wolpe, David J.

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Herbert, George

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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

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

Seneca

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

Illich, Ivan

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Juvenal

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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 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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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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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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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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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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Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

Socrates

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

Michalski, Stan

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Barr, Amelia E.

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

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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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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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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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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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

Real Live Preacher

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

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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.

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