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

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

Proverb, English

Prayer is a passport to heaven. Your communication with God.

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

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

Pray that you will never have to bear all that you are able to endure.

Proverb, Jewish

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

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

Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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

Michalski, Stan

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

Temple, Sir William

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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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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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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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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

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Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Tupper, Martin

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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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

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Wolpe, David J.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Herbert, George

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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

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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.

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

Augustine, St.

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Socrates

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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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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Juvenal

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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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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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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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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.