Motivational Quotes

Prayer

There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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

G. E. Lessing

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

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

Tupper, Martin

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

There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Wolpe, David J.

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

Temple, Sir William

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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.

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

Herbert, George

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

Proverb

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Cockburn, Alexander

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

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Barr, Amelia E.

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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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Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts let it not awaken like a frightened bird that flies about in dismay, but like a child waking from its sleep with a heavenly smile.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Bible

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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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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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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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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Seneca

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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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The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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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

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Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.

Gide, Andre

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

Lessing, Doris

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

Oscar Wilde

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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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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