Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

It is good to pray for the repair of mistakes, but praying earlier would keep us from making so many. When puzzled, go to prayer and listen.

Macaulay, J. C.

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

Socrates

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

Proverb

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Juvenal

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

Foster, Robert D.

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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Lessing, Doris

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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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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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When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.

Oscar Wilde

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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Ask God's blessing on your work, but don't ask him to do it for you.

Robson, Dame Flora

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Illich, Ivan

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

Herbert, George

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Tupper, Martin

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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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

Seneca

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If this obstacle is from Thee, Lord, I accept it; but if it is from Satan, I refuse him and all his works in the name of Calvary.

Kuhn, Isobel

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Proverb, English

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

G. E. Lessing

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

Michalski, Stan

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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 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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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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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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Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bible

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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. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.

Phillips Brooks

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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.