Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Proverb, Indian

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Socrates

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

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

Robson, Dame Flora

Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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

Wolpe, David J.

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

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

Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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

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

Proverb

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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Meister Eckhart

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Barr, Amelia E.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Herbert, George

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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 from prayer that the spirit's victory springs.

Schillerbuch

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

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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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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Tupper, Martin

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

Seneca

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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

Juvenal