Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Temple, Sir William

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

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

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.

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

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

Robson, Dame Flora

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

Illich, Ivan

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

Seneca

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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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

11.

Why is it when we talk to God, we're praying, but when God talks to us, we're schizophrenic?

Tomlin, Lily

12.

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

13.

We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

14.

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

Bible

15.

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

16.

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

Meister Eckhart

17.

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

18.

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

19.

Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

20.

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

Proverb

21.

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

Proverb, Indian

22.

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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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

24.

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

25.

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

Proverb

26.

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

27.

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

28.

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

Wolpe, David J.

31.

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.

32.

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

Cohen, Leonard

33.

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

Bernanos, Georges

34.

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

Proverb, English

35.

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Brault, Robert

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

40.

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

Rader, Lyell

41.

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

Schillerbuch

42.

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

43.

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

Michalski, Stan

44.

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

Oscar Wilde

46.

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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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

48.

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

Barr, Amelia E.

49.

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

Tupper, Martin