Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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

Meister Eckhart

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

Seneca

Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord by ceasing to pray for you, but I will instruct you in the good and right way. [I Samuel 12:23]

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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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Tomlin, Lily

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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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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Practice in life whatever you pray for and God will give it to you more abundantly.

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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

Juvenal

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

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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

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

Herbert, George

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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

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

Schillerbuch

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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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 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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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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

Temple, Sir William

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

Seneca

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

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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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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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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

Hippocrates

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Eddy, Mary Baker

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

Tupper, Martin

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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Real Live Preacher

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

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