Motivational Quotes

Prayer

Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.

- Pilgrim, Peace

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Meister Eckhart

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

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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

It is from prayer that the spirit's victory springs.

Schillerbuch

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

Seneca

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

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

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

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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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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Seneca

14.

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

Proverb

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

21.

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Proverb, English

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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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

Herbert, George

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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 is a passport to heaven. Your communication with God.

31.

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

O'Malley, Austin

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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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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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

Temple, Sir William

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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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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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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Rader, Lyell

44.

Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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

Proverb

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