Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Lessing, Gotthold

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Hippocrates

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

Buttrick, George

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

One hour in the execution of justice is worth seventy years of prayer.

Proverb

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

Seneca

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

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

Meister Eckhart

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

Hugo, Victor

Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body.

Juvenal

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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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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 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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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 and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Bible

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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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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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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

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

Rader, Lyell

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

Wolpe, David J.

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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

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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

Herbert, George

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

Socrates

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

Proverb

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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Bible

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

Tupper, Martin

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Illich, Ivan

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

Cockburn, Alexander

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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

Michalski, Stan

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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