Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Buttrick, George

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

Proverb, Indian

When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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

Bible

Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Robson, Dame Flora

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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

11.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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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

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

Michalski, Stan

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

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

Proverb, English

19.

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

Bible

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Barr, Amelia E.

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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

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

Schillerbuch

29.

Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

30.

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

31.

We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

33.

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

Proverb

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

Wolpe, David J.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Herbert, George

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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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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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

Proverb