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

Do not make prayer a monologue -- make it a conversation.

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

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

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

Tupper, Martin

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

Illich, Ivan

You must pray that the way be long, full of adventures and experiences.

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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

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

Temple, Sir William

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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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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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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.

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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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The influence of prayer on the human mind and body is as demonstrable as that of secreting glands. Its results can be measured in terms of increased physical buoyancy, greater intellectual vigor, moral stamina, and a deeper understanding of the realities underlying human relationships.

Carrel, Dr. Alex

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

Wolpe, David J.

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Proverb, Jewish

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Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us.

Selden, John

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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Proverb, English

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

Proverb

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Eckhart, Meister

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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

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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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If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.

Meister Eckhart

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

Brault, Robert

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

Seneca

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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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

Barr, Amelia E.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Rader, Lyell

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

Robson, Dame Flora