Motivational Quotes

Prayer

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

- Eckhart, Meister

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

Barr, Amelia E.

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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.

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

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

Rader, Lyell

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

G. E. Lessing

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

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

Seneca

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

Illich, Ivan

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

Augustine, St.

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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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Tupper, Martin

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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

Lessing, Doris

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

Hippocrates

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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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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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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Proverb

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

Temple, Sir William

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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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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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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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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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The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions.

Brault, Robert

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Wolpe, David J.

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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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