Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Meister Eckhart

Best Quotes about Prayer

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

Cohen, Leonard

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

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

Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Rader, Lyell

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.

Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

G. E. Lessing

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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 that you will never have to bear all that you are able to endure.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Cockburn, Alexander

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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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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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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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Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Proverb

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

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

Illich, Ivan

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

Augustine, St.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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

Brault, Robert

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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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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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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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

Proverb

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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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Heaven grant that the burden you carry may have as easy an exit as it had an entrance. [Prayer To A Pregnant Woman]

Erasmus, Desiderius

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