Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Illich, Ivan

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

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

Michalski, Stan

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

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

Eckhart, Meister

Most men pray for power, the strength to do things. Few people pray for love, the quality to be someone.

Foster, Robert D.

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

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

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

Socrates

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Lessing, Doris

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

Herbert, George

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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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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

14.

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

Tupper, Martin

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Buttrick, George

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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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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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Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Proverb

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

Proverb, English

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

Voltaire

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

Wolpe, David J.

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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Bible

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

Seneca

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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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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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