Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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.

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

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

So I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

Bible

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

Taylor, Jeremy

Most men pray for power, the strength to do things. Few people pray for love, the quality to be someone.

Foster, Robert D.

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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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

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

Wolpe, David J.

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

Bible

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

Juvenal

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

Proverb, English

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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.

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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 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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Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bible

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Schillerbuch

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

O'Malley, Austin

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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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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Rader, Lyell

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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You must pray that the way be long, full of adventures and experiences.

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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

Lessing, Doris

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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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