Motivational Quotes

Prayer

Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

- Proverb, Russian

Best Quotes about Prayer

Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Socrates

When a man has done all he can do, still there is a mighty, mysterious agency over which he needs influence to secure success. The one way he can reach it is by prayer.

Conwell, Russel H.

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

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

Buttrick, George

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

Proverb

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Cockburn, Alexander

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

G. E. Lessing

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

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Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Wolpe, David J.

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

Proverb

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Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

Seneca

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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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Pray for what you want, but work for what you need.

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

Oscar Wilde

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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Rader, Lyell

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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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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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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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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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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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Ask God for what man can give, and you may get it.

Proverb, English

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When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't.

Temple, Sir William

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

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

Hippocrates

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Proverb, Jewish

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The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.