Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Saint Theresa of Jesus

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Bible

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

We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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

Cockburn, Alexander

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Proverb

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

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Ask God's blessing on your work, but don't ask him to do it for you.

Robson, Dame Flora

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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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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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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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Prayer is talking with God and telling Him you love Him, conversing with God about all the things that are important in life, both large and small, and being assured that He is listening.

Strait, C. Neil

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When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.

Oscar Wilde

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

Herbert, George

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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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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

Cohen, Leonard

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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Seneca

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

Wolpe, David J.

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

Bible

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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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 is a passport to heaven. Your communication with God.

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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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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 a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Lessing, Doris

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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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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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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]

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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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We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

Seneca