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

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Schillerbuch

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

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

Proverb

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

Barr, Amelia E.

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.

Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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

Illich, Ivan

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

10.

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

11.

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]

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12.

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

Proverb, English

13.

Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

14.

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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15.

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

Michalski, Stan

16.

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

Oscar Wilde

17.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Seneca

21.

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

Temple, Sir William

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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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Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.

Milton, John

24.

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

Hugo, Victor

25.

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

G. E. Lessing

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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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

28.

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

Socrates

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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Juvenal

34.

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

Cockburn, Alexander

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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

Wolpe, David J.

40.

Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

42.

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

43.

Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

44.

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

Tupper, Martin

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

Meister Eckhart

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Ask God's blessing on your work, but don't ask him to do it for you.

Robson, Dame Flora

48.

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