Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Oscar Wilde

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

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

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Tupper, Martin

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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

Proverb

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

Cockburn, Alexander

Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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

Temple, Sir William

10.

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

11.

Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

12.

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

Wolpe, David J.

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

Proverb

14.

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

Real Live Preacher

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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

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Hippocrates

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If I regard wickedness in my heart the Lord will not hear. [Psalms 66:18]

Bible

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

31.

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

G. E. Lessing

32.

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

Proverb, Indian

33.

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

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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

35.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

40.

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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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Brault, Robert