Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Proverb

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.

Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

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

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

Temple, Sir William

If I told you what it takes to reach the highest high you'd laugh and say nothing that simple, but you've been told many times before messiah's point you to the door though no one's got the guts to leave the temple.

Townsend, Peter

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

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

10.

Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

11.

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

12.

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

Hugo, Victor

13.

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

Augustine, St.

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

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

Barr, Amelia E.

17.

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

18.

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

19.

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

Seneca

20.

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

Tupper, Martin

21.

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

Real Live Preacher

22.

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

Bible

23.

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.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

25.

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.

26.

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

27.

Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Rader, Lyell

29.

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

Robson, Dame Flora

30.

Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

31.

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

Juvenal

32.

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

33.

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

Schillerbuch

34.

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

35.

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.

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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

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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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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

39.

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

Meister Eckhart

40.

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

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

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

43.

The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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.

Brooks, Phillips

45.

Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

46.

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

Wolpe, David J.

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

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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