Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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.

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

Socrates

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

Wolpe, David J.

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.

Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

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

Cockburn, Alexander

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

Hippocrates

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

Illich, Ivan

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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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Townsend, Peter

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

Proverb, Indian

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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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Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.

O'Malley, Austin

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

21.

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

Temple, Sir William

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

Bierce, Ambrose

28.

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

Brault, Robert

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

Michalski, Stan

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

Herbert, George

35.

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

Tupper, Martin

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

Barr, Amelia E.

38.

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

45.

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

46.

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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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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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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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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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