Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Pilgrim, Peace

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

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

Rader, Lyell

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

Wolpe, David J.

When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.

Peale, Norman Vincent

The fates are not quite obdurate; they have a grim, sardonic way of granting them who supplicate the thing they wanted yesterday.

Montgomery, Roselle Mercier

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Tupper, Martin

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 and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

10.

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

Michalski, Stan

11.

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Herbert, George

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

Cohen, Leonard

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

Proverb

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

Illich, Ivan

17.

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Bible

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

23.

Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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

Juvenal

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Schillerbuch

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

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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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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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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

34.

We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

35.

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

Socrates

36.

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

37.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bible

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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.

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

O'Malley, Austin

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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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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma