Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Meister Eckhart

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

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

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

Seneca

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

So I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

Bible

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

Bible

Pray. To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

Bierce, Ambrose

Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Wolpe, David J.

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

Lessing, Doris

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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

18.

Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

19.

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

Hippocrates

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

Brault, Robert

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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

24.

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

Robson, Dame Flora

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

27.

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

Socrates

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

Seneca

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

33.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

34.

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

O'Malley, Austin

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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 the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.

Tupper, Martin

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

Proverb

40.

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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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

42.

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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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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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

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God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers and thrust the thing we have prayed for in our face, like a gauntlet with a gift in it.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

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