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

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

Bible

Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Herbert, George

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

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

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

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Bernanos, Georges

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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

Wolpe, David J.

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There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bible

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You must pray that the way be long, full of adventures and experiences.

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.

Hugo, Victor

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

Augustine, St.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Lessing, Doris

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

Bible

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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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Prayer is talking with God and telling Him you love Him, conversing with God about all the things that are important in life, both large and small, and being assured that He is listening.

Strait, C. Neil

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Cockburn, Alexander

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The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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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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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

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

G. E. Lessing

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

Tupper, Martin

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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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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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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