Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Wolpe, David J.

Best Quotes about Prayer

Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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.

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

Illich, Ivan

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Juvenal

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Brault, Robert

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

Herbert, George

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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]

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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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So I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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

Lessing, Doris

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

Proverb, English

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The fates are not quite obdurate; they have a grim, sardonic way of granting them who supplicate the thing they wanted yesterday.

Montgomery, Roselle Mercier

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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

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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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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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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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Hippocrates

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

Temple, Sir William

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

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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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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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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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