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

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.

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

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

Augustine, St.

Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

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 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

Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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

10.

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

Tomlin, Lily

11.

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

Eckhart, Meister

12.

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

Proverb, Indian

14.

We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Tupper, Martin

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

Bible

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

Barr, Amelia E.

19.

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

Proverb

20.

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

Bible

21.

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Lessing, Doris

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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.

24.

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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

Illich, Ivan

27.

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

Meister Eckhart

28.

Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

29.

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

30.

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

31.

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

G. E. Lessing

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

Proverb

33.

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

Proverb, Jewish

34.

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

Temple, Sir William

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

Rader, Lyell

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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.

Bible

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

41.

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

Socrates

42.

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

43.

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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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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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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The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions.

Brault, Robert

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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]

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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