Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

Best Quotes about Prayer

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]

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

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

Wolpe, David J.

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

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

Pray. To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Hippocrates

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

Tupper, Martin

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

Herbert, George

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

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

Seneca

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

G. E. Lessing

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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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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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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Temple, Sir William

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

Illich, Ivan

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

Oscar Wilde

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

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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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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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

Michalski, Stan

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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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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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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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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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

Schillerbuch

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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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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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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

Lessing, Doris

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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