Motivational Quotes

Prayer

Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.

- Hammarskjold, Dag

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Real Live Preacher

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

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

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Temple, Sir William

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

Robson, Dame Flora

The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us.

Bernanos, Georges

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

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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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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 a passport to heaven. Your communication with God.

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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

G. E. Lessing

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

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

Cockburn, Alexander

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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Bible

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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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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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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]

Bible

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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.

Brooks, Phillips

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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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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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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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Brault, Robert

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

Lessing, Doris

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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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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