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

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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

Proverb, Indian

Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Rader, Lyell

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

Proverb

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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

11.

Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

12.

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

13.

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

Proverb

14.

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

Tupper, Martin

15.

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

G. E. Lessing

16.

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

Proverb, Jewish

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Proverb, English

21.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

22.

Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

23.

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.

24.

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

Hippocrates

25.

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

26.

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

Augustine, St.

27.

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

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

28.

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

Socrates

29.

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

30.

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

Voltaire

31.

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

Buttrick, George

32.

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

Lessing, Doris

33.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

34.

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

Schillerbuch

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Michalski, Stan

38.

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

Juvenal

40.

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

41.

Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it.

Taylor, Jeremy

42.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

43.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

44.

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

45.

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

Tomlin, Lily

46.

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

Wolpe, David J.

47.

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

Bible

48.

Audible prayer can never do the works of spiritual understanding, which regenerates; but silent prayer, watchfulness, and devout obedience enable us to follow Jesus example. Long prayers, superstition, and creeds clip the strong pinions of love, and clothe religion in human forms. Whatever materializes worship hinders man's spiritual growth and keeps him from demonstrating his power over error.

Eddy, Mary Baker

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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

50.

Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish