Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Lessing, Doris

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

Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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.

We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them.

West, Charles C.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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

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

Proverb

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You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body.

Juvenal

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

Wolpe, David J.

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

Seneca

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

Augustine, St.

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

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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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

Proverb, Indian

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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

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

Hippocrates

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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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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

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

Seneca

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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]

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

G. E. Lessing

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

Meister Eckhart

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

Proverb, Jewish

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When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.

Oscar Wilde

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Rader, Lyell

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

Schillerbuch

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.