Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

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

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

Franklin, Benjamin

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.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

Pray. To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Lessing, Doris

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

Bible

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Seneca

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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 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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Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.

Barr, Amelia E.

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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

Bible

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

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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

Illich, Ivan

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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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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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

Herbert, George

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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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More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.

Twain, Mark

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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

G. E. Lessing

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

Robson, Dame Flora

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

Tupper, Martin

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