Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- G. E. Lessing

Best Quotes about Prayer

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.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Socrates

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

Rader, Lyell

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

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

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Taylor, Jeremy

12.

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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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.

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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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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

16.

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

17.

Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

18.

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

Proverb

19.

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

Herbert, George

20.

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

21.

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

Cockburn, Alexander

22.

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

Cohen, Leonard

23.

Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

24.

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

Schillerbuch

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Bible

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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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Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

Augustine, St.

30.

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

31.

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

Proverb, Indian

32.

Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

33.

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

34.

Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

35.

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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

Foster, Robert D.

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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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Juvenal

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

G. E. Lessing

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