Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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.

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

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

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

Hippocrates

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

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

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

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

10.

Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

11.

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

Robson, Dame Flora

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

G. E. Lessing

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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

Lessing, Doris

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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Proverb, Indian

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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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Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

27.

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

28.

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

30.

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

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

32.

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

33.

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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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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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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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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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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Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.

Milton, John

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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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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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

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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Schillerbuch

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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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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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The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions.

Brault, Robert