Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Saint Theresa of Jesus

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

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

Proverb

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

Herbert, George

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

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

Illich, Ivan

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

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

Seneca

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

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

Michalski, Stan

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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

Bible

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

Schillerbuch

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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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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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

26.

You must pray that the way be long, full of adventures and experiences.

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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Practice in life whatever you pray for and God will give it to you more abundantly.

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

33.

Why is it when we talk to God, we're praying, but when God talks to us, we're schizophrenic?

Tomlin, Lily

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

Bible

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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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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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But if it were I, I would appeal to God; I would lay my cause before Him. He performs wonders that cannot be fathomed, miracles that cannot be counted. [Job 5:8-9]

Bible

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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

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Oscar Wilde

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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.