Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Prayer

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.

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

Meister Eckhart

Heaven grant that the burden you carry may have as easy an exit as it had an entrance. [Prayer To A Pregnant Woman]

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Proverb, Jewish

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Seneca

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

Temple, Sir William

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

Illich, Ivan

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

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Wolpe, David J.

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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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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

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

Proverb

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Juvenal

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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 fates are not quite obdurate; they have a grim, sardonic way of granting them who supplicate the thing they wanted yesterday.

Montgomery, Roselle Mercier

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

Lessing, Doris

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

Tupper, Martin

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

Brault, Robert

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

Cockburn, Alexander

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Common people do not pray; they only beg.