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

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

Proverb, Indian

Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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

Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

Pray. To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

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

Herbert, George

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

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11.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

18.

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

Illich, Ivan

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

Proverb, Jewish

20.

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

21.

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

Proverb, English

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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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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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More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.

Twain, Mark

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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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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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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Seneca

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

Oscar Wilde

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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

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Seneca

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

Proverb

39.

All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother. I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body.

Juvenal

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

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

43.

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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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