Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Michalski, Stan

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

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

Cockburn, Alexander

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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

Temple, Sir William

Prayer is not a substitute for work, thinking, watching, suffering, or giving; prayer is a support for all other efforts.

Buttrick, George

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

Proverb

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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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 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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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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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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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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

Lessing, Doris

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

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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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Most men pray for power, the strength to do things. Few people pray for love, the quality to be someone.

Foster, Robert D.

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

Proverb

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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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

Augustine, St.

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

Barr, Amelia E.

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

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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

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Bible

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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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

Rader, Lyell

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

Seneca

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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Illich, Ivan

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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.