Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Michalski, Stan

Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

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.

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

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

Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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

Schillerbuch

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

Hippocrates

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

Illich, Ivan

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

Seneca

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

Barr, Amelia E.

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

Bible

23.

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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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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

Proverb

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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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 function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Rader, Lyell

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

Meister Eckhart

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

Temple, Sir William

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