Motivational Quotes

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.

Best Quotes about Prayer

Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Bible

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

Tupper, Martin

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

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

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

Proverb

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

10.

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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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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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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Prayer is not a substitute for work, thinking, watching, suffering, or giving; prayer is a support for all other efforts.

Buttrick, George

15.

Heaven grant that the burden you carry may have as easy an exit as it had an entrance. [Prayer To A Pregnant Woman]

Erasmus, Desiderius

16.

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

Barr, Amelia E.

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

Bible

20.

God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers and thrust the thing we have prayed for in our face, like a gauntlet with a gift in it.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Proverb, Jewish

23.

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

Proverb

24.

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

Voltaire

25.

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

Michalski, Stan

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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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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

28.

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

29.

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

30.

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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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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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

33.

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

Foster, Robert D.

34.

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

G. E. Lessing

35.

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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A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.

Lessing, Gotthold

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

38.

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

Robson, Dame Flora

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

Rader, Lyell

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Why is it when we talk to God, we're praying, but when God talks to us, we're schizophrenic?

Tomlin, Lily

41.

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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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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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 an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

Gandhi, Mahatma

46.

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

Meister Eckhart

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