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

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

Rader, Lyell

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

We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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.

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

There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Meister Eckhart

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

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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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It is from prayer that the spirit's victory springs.

Schillerbuch

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Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us.

Selden, John

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

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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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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 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 simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

Lessing, Doris

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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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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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 should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.

Herbert, George

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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]

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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Wolpe, David J.

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Robson, Dame Flora

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

Seneca

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

Seneca

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

Cockburn, Alexander

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

Proverb

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

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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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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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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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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Tupper, Martin

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

Hugo, Victor

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

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