Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Rader, Lyell

Best Quotes about Prayer

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.

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

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

Herbert, George

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

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

G. E. Lessing

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

Wolpe, David J.

There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

O'Malley, Austin

10.

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

Proverb

11.

Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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

Proverb

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

Brault, Robert

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Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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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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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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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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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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]

Bible

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

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

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

Barr, Amelia E.

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

Bible

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

Schillerbuch

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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 you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Proverb, English

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Temple, Sir William

44.

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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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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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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Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

Socrates

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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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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