Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

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

Rader, Lyell

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

A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.

Cockburn, Alexander

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

Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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

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

There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.

Hugo, Victor

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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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

Herbert, George

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

Meister Eckhart

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

Eckhart, Meister

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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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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

Hippocrates

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, English

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

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We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them.

West, Charles C.

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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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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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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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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]

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

Temple, Sir William

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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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

Michalski, Stan

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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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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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Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Schillerbuch

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

Juvenal

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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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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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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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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