Motivational Quotes

Prayer

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

- Graham, Ruth

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Tupper, Martin

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Proverb, Indian

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

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.

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.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

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

Michalski, Stan

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

Cockburn, Alexander

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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Bible

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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

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

G. E. Lessing

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

Proverb

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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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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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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Juvenal

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

Bible

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Lessing, Doris

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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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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Herbert, George

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We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

Seneca

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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey