Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Tupper, Martin

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes.

Hillesum, Etty

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

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

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

The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us.

Bernanos, Georges

Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

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

Lessing, Doris

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

Proverb, Indian

11.

The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.

Baudelaire, Charles

12.

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

Barr, Amelia E.

16.

Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

17.

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

Cockburn, Alexander

18.

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

19.

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.

20.

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

21.

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

Cohen, Leonard

22.

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

Meister Eckhart

23.

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

Tupper, Martin

25.

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

Proverb

26.

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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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

28.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

30.

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

Robson, Dame Flora

31.

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

Hippocrates

33.

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

Schillerbuch

34.

There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.

Hugo, Victor

35.

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

Herbert, George

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

Eckhart, Meister

39.

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

Rader, Lyell

40.

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

Socrates

41.

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

Proverb, Jewish

44.

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

Bible

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