Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Brault, Robert

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Brault, Robert

Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Robson, Dame Flora

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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

10.

Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

11.

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.

12.

Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

13.

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

14.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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We are all weak, finite, simple human beings, standing in the need of prayer. None need it so much as those who think they are strong, those who know it not, but are deluded by self-sufficiency.

Phillips, Harold C.

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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

18.

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

19.

Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Meister Eckhart

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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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

27.

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

Cohen, Leonard

28.

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

Bible

29.

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

Cockburn, Alexander

30.

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

31.

No one can pray well, but those who live well.

Proverb

32.

Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

33.

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

Proverb, Indian

34.

My prayer to God is a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies look ridiculous! God has granted it.

Voltaire

35.

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

Eckhart, Meister

36.

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

Proverb

37.

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

38.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

39.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

40.

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

41.

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

42.

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

Oscar Wilde

43.

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

Proverb, English

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Tupper, Martin

47.

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

48.

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

Wolpe, David J.

49.

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

50.

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