Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- G. E. Lessing

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Pilgrim, Peace

Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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

Illich, Ivan

There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.

Hugo, Victor

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

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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Proverb, English

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

Proverb, Indian

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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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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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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.

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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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

Seneca

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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Brault, Robert

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

Michalski, Stan

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

Buttrick, George

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

Cockburn, Alexander

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Seneca

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Voltaire

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

Augustine, St.

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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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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, 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 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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Prayer is a passport to heaven. Your communication with God.

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