Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Real Live Preacher

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Bible

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

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

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

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.

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

Temple, Sir William

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.

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

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

Proverb, Jewish

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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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

Bible

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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

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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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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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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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The fates are not quite obdurate; they have a grim, sardonic way of granting them who supplicate the thing they wanted yesterday.

Montgomery, Roselle Mercier

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

Michalski, Stan

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

Augustine, St.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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

Illich, Ivan

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

Lessing, Doris

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

Brault, Robert

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Prayer is a passport to heaven. Your communication with God.

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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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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 not a substitute for work, thinking, watching, suffering, or giving; prayer is a support for all other efforts.

Buttrick, George

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

G. E. Lessing

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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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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The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Proverb

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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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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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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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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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