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

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

Schillerbuch

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Lessing, Doris

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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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

10.

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 should pray for a sound mind in a sound body.

Juvenal

12.

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

O'Malley, Austin

15.

Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

16.

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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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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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Bible

23.

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

Brault, Robert

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

G. E. Lessing

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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

28.

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

Michalski, Stan

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

Proverb, English

30.

Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

31.

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

Herbert, George

32.

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

33.

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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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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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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

38.

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

39.

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

Proverb

40.

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

Socrates

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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 ask for what you will wish you had not got.

Seneca

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

Hippocrates

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

Tupper, Martin

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