Motivational Quotes

Prayer

Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.

- Barr, Amelia E.

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

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

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

Socrates

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

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

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

Brault, Robert

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

10.

If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.

Meister Eckhart

11.

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

Cockburn, Alexander

12.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

15.

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

Proverb, Indian

16.

There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

17.

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

Herbert, George

18.

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

19.

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

Robson, Dame Flora

20.

Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

21.

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

Bernanos, Georges

22.

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

23.

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

Proverb

24.

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

Seneca

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

28.

Most men pray for power, the strength to do things. Few people pray for love, the quality to be someone.

Foster, Robert D.

29.

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

30.

Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

31.

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]

Bible

32.

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.

33.

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

34.

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

Bible

35.

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

Proverb, English

36.

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

Juvenal

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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

38.

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

Schillerbuch

39.

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

40.

Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

41.

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

Rader, Lyell

42.

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

Wolpe, David J.

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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

44.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

45.

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

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

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