Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

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.

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.

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

Foster, Robert D.

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

Rader, Lyell

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

Seneca

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

Proverb, English

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

When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't.

Temple, Sir William

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

Proverb

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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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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

Hippocrates

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Proverb

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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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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Lessing, Doris

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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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 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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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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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Bible

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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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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Robson, Dame Flora

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

Augustine, St.

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

Michalski, Stan

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

Juvenal

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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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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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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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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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There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God.

Illich, Ivan

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

Meister Eckhart

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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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

Bible

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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