Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Foster, Robert D.

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Augustine, St.

Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

If you can't pray a door open, don't pry it open.

Rader, Lyell

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

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

Cockburn, Alexander

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Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Tupper, Martin

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

Proverb

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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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]

Bible

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

Wolpe, David J.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Barr, Amelia E.

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

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Hippocrates

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

Meister Eckhart

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Socrates

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

Juvenal

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

Proverb

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

Schillerbuch

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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Temple, Sir William

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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