Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Bible

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

Wolpe, David J.

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Tupper, Martin

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

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

Gandhi, Mahatma

My prayer to God is a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies look ridiculous! God has granted it.

Voltaire

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

Lessing, Doris

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

Michalski, Stan

10.

There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.

Hugo, Victor

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

12.

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

Rader, Lyell

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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Schillerbuch

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Take God for your spouse and friend and walk with him continually, and you will not sin and will learn to love, and the things you must do will work out prosperously for you.

John of the Cross, St.

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To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention -- on a landscape, a poem, a geometrical problem, an idol, or the True God -- that he completely forgets his own ego and desires, he is praying. The primary task of the schoolteacher is to teach children, in a secular context, the technique of prayer.

Auden, W. H.

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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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

Proverb, Jewish

25.

So I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

Bible

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

Bernanos, Georges

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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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We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them.

West, Charles C.

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

Bible

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Proverb

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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

40.

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

41.

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

Meister Eckhart

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

G. E. Lessing

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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

Seneca

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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