Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Best Quotes about Prayer

Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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

We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

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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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 is a passport to heaven. Your communication with God.

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

Brault, Robert

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

Bernanos, Georges

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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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

Illich, Ivan

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Wolpe, David J.

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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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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Tupper, Martin

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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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

Lessing, Doris

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

Meister Eckhart

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

Barr, Amelia E.

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

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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