Motivational Quotes

Prayer

Short prayers reach heaven.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Proverb

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

Seneca

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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

Cohen, Leonard

The time of business does not with me differ from the time of prayer, and in the noise and clatter of my kitchen, while several persons are at the same time calling for different things, I possess God as if I were upon my knees at the blessed sacrament.

Lawrence, Brother

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

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord by ceasing to pray for you, but I will instruct you in the good and right way. [I Samuel 12:23]

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

Robson, Dame Flora

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

Proverb, English

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

Augustine, St.

17.

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]

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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

19.

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

20.

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

21.

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

Barr, Amelia E.

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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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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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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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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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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

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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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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

29.

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

Illich, Ivan

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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

Rader, Lyell

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

Hippocrates

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

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

37.

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

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

40.

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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If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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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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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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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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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Herbert, George

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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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Why is it when we talk to God, we're praying, but when God talks to us, we're schizophrenic?