Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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.

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Proverb, English

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

Herbert, George

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

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

Meister Eckhart

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

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

Wolpe, David J.

Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Augustine, St.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Temple, Sir William

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

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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But if it were I, I would appeal to God; I would lay my cause before Him. He performs wonders that cannot be fathomed, miracles that cannot be counted. [Job 5:8-9]

Bible

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Schillerbuch

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

Tupper, Martin

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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

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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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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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If this obstacle is from Thee, Lord, I accept it; but if it is from Satan, I refuse him and all his works in the name of Calvary.

Kuhn, Isobel

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

Seneca

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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

Proverb, Indian

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Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.

Gide, Andre

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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 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 a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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

Proverb

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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We are all weak, finite, simple human beings, standing in the need of prayer. None need it so much as those who think they are strong, those who know it not, but are deluded by self-sufficiency.

Phillips, Harold C.