Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

Best Quotes about Prayer

Take God for your spouse and friend and walk with him continually, and you will not sin and will learn to love, and the things you must do will work out prosperously for you.

John of the Cross, St.

Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Herbert, George

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

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

Proverb, Indian

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

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

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

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

Michalski, Stan

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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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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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To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention -- on a landscape, a poem, a geometrical problem, an idol, or the True God -- that he completely forgets his own ego and desires, he is praying. The primary task of the schoolteacher is to teach children, in a secular context, the technique of prayer.

Auden, W. H.

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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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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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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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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 a passport to heaven. Your communication with God.

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Rader, Lyell

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

G. E. Lessing

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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 are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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

Augustine, St.

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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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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.

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

Illich, Ivan

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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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The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Brault, Robert

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

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

Schillerbuch

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

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

Proverb

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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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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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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