Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Meister Eckhart

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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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

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

Practice in life whatever you pray for and God will give it to you more abundantly.

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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]

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Herbert, George

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Tupper, Martin

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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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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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

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

Barr, Amelia E.

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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

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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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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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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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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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