Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

Best Quotes about Prayer

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Barr, Amelia E.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Meister Eckhart

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Proverb

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

Bible

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

Schillerbuch

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

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

Lessing, Doris

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

Socrates

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

G. E. Lessing

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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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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All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother. I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Cockburn, Alexander

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

Rader, Lyell

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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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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 an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

43.

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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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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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

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

Juvenal

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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.