Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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.

Best Quotes about Prayer

1.

Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

2.

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

Bible

3.

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

Schillerbuch

4.

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

5.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

6.

Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

7.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

8.

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

Temple, Sir William

9.

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

10.

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.

11.

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

Proverb

12.

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

Socrates

13.

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

14.

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

Tomlin, Lily

15.

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

16.

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

17.

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

Brault, Robert

18.

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.

19.

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

G. E. Lessing

20.

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

Proverb, Indian

21.

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

Meister Eckhart

22.

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

Voltaire

23.

Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

24.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

25.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

26.

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

27.

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

28.

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

Buttrick, George

29.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

30.

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

Proverb, English

31.

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

Lessing, Doris

32.

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

Proverb

33.

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

Juvenal

34.

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

Proverb, Jewish

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Eckhart, Meister

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

O'Malley, Austin

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Michalski, Stan

44.

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

45.

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.

46.

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

47.

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

Cockburn, Alexander

48.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

49.

Most men pray for power, the strength to do things. Few people pray for love, the quality to be someone.

Foster, Robert D.