Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Proverb, Jewish

Pray without ceasing. In everything give thanks. [I Thessalonians]

Bible

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

Cockburn, Alexander

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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

Foster, Robert D.

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

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Tupper, Martin

10.

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

Oscar Wilde

11.

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

12.

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

13.

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

14.

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

Augustine, St.

15.

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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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

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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

18.

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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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.

20.

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

Meister Eckhart

21.

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

Illich, Ivan

22.

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

23.

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

Proverb, Indian

24.

Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

25.

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

Tomlin, Lily

26.

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

Michalski, Stan

27.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

28.

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

Cohen, Leonard

29.

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

Eckhart, Meister

30.

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

Robson, Dame Flora

31.

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

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

32.

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

33.

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

Juvenal

34.

We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Seneca

38.

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.

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

40.

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention -- on a landscape, a poem, a geometrical problem, an idol, or the True God -- that he completely forgets his own ego and desires, he is praying. The primary task of the schoolteacher is to teach children, in a secular context, the technique of prayer.

Auden, W. H.

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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

46.

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

Lessing, Doris

47.

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

48.

Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

49.

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

Buttrick, George

50.

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

Proverb, English