Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- G. E. Lessing

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Proverb, English

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

Proverb

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

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

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

Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.

Pilgrim, Peace

Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

11.

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

Herbert, George

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Brault, Robert

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

G. E. Lessing

18.

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

Bible

21.

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

Seneca

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

25.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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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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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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

Rader, Lyell

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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Michalski, Stan

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

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

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

Temple, Sir William

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

Tupper, Martin

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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]

Bible

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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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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

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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Barr, Amelia E.

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

Proverb

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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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