Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Illich, Ivan

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

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

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

Barr, Amelia E.

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

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

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

Bible

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

G. E. Lessing

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Lessing, Doris

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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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We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

Seneca

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

Rader, Lyell

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

Michalski, Stan

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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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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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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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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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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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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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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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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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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

41.

You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body.

Juvenal

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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.

43.

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

Schillerbuch

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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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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Tupper, Martin

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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Eckhart, Meister