Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Bible

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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

G. E. Lessing

Why is it when we talk to God, we're praying, but when God talks to us, we're schizophrenic?

Tomlin, Lily

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

Rader, Lyell

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

Voltaire

Prayer is not a substitute for work, thinking, watching, suffering, or giving; prayer is a support for all other efforts.

Buttrick, George

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Lessing, Doris

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

Herbert, George

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Bible

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bible

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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Proverb, English

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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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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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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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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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

25.

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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

Proverb

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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.

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

Temple, Sir William

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

Robson, Dame Flora

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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

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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Michalski, Stan

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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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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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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Tupper, Martin

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Gide, Andre

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

Eckhart, Meister