Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Prayer

Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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 a man has done all he can do, still there is a mighty, mysterious agency over which he needs influence to secure success. The one way he can reach it is by prayer.

Conwell, Russel H.

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

A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.

Cockburn, Alexander

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

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

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

Herbert, George

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

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

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

Barr, Amelia E.

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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.

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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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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Michalski, Stan

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

Real Live Preacher

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Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.

Tupper, Martin

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

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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 simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

Lessing, Doris

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Temple, Sir William

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

Illich, Ivan

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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

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

Brault, Robert

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

Augustine, St.

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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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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