Motivational Quotes

Prayer

Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

- Tennyson, Lord Alfred

Best Quotes about Prayer

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Proverb

Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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

Oscar Wilde

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

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

Michalski, Stan

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.

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

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

Proverb, English

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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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.

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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

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Seneca

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

G. E. Lessing

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

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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My prayer to God is a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies look ridiculous! God has granted it.

Voltaire

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

Herbert, George

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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.

Brooks, Phillips

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

Bible

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

Tupper, Martin

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

Lessing, Doris

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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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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

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

Augustine, St.

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Robson, Dame Flora

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

Franklin, Benjamin