Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Prayer

1.

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.

2.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

3.

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

Tupper, Martin

4.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

5.

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

6.

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

Socrates

7.

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

Oscar Wilde

8.

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

O'Malley, Austin

9.

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

Voltaire

10.

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

Augustine, St.

11.

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

Hippocrates

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

15.

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

Brault, Robert

16.

Prayer is not a substitute for work, thinking, watching, suffering, or giving; prayer is a support for all other efforts.

Buttrick, George

17.

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

18.

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

Lessing, Doris

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

22.

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

Cockburn, Alexander

23.

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

24.

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

Bible

25.

Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

30.

One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.

G. E. Lessing

31.

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

Schillerbuch

32.

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

33.

Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

34.

Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

35.

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

Juvenal

36.

A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.

Lessing, Gotthold

37.

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

Proverb, Jewish

38.

We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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.

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

Michalski, Stan

41.

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

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

42.

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

43.

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

44.

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

45.

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

Proverb

46.

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

Wolpe, David J.

47.

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

48.

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