Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

Best Quotes about Prayer

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Hippocrates

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

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

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Seneca

10.

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

Robson, Dame Flora

11.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

12.

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

Proverb, English

13.

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

Herbert, George

14.

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

15.

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

Cohen, Leonard

16.

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.

17.

It is good to pray for the repair of mistakes, but praying earlier would keep us from making so many. When puzzled, go to prayer and listen.

Macaulay, J. C.

18.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

19.

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

Juvenal

20.

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

21.

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.

22.

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

Tupper, Martin

23.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

24.

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

25.

Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

26.

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

Oscar Wilde

27.

Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

28.

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

29.

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

Socrates

30.

There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.

Hugo, Victor

31.

Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

32.

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.

33.

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

Seneca

34.

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

35.

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

Tomlin, Lily

36.

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

Lessing, Doris

37.

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

Proverb

38.

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

39.

Pray that you will never have to bear all that you are able to endure.

Proverb, Jewish

40.

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

Proverb, Indian

41.

You can pray for someone even if you don't think God exists.

Real Live Preacher

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

O'Malley, Austin

45.

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

46.

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

Illich, Ivan

47.

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

Proverb

48.

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

49.

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

Wolpe, David J.

50.

Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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