Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Peale, Norman Vincent

Best Quotes about Prayer

We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Foster, Robert D.

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.

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Barr, Amelia E.

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

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

Temple, Sir William

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

Robson, Dame Flora

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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 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. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.

Phillips Brooks

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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Michalski, Stan

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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

22.

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Lessing, Doris

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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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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

31.

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

32.

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

Meister Eckhart

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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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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

37.

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

Brault, Robert

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

Tupper, Martin

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

Proverb

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