Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Best Quotes about Prayer

1.

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

2.

Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

3.

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

Brault, Robert

4.

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

5.

Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.

Herbert, George

6.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

7.

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

Lessing, Doris

8.

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

Augustine, St.

9.

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

Juvenal

10.

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

11.

Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

12.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

13.

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

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14.

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.

15.

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

Lessing, Gotthold

16.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

17.

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

18.

The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us.

Bernanos, Georges

19.

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

Robson, Dame Flora

20.

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

Hippocrates

21.

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

22.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

23.

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

Temple, Sir William

24.

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

O'Malley, Austin

25.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

26.

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

Wolpe, David J.

27.

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

Oscar Wilde

28.

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

Hugo, Victor

29.

Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

30.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

31.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

32.

Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

33.

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

Proverb, Jewish

34.

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

Schillerbuch

35.

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

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

36.

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

Socrates

37.

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

Real Live Preacher

38.

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.

39.

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

Seneca

40.

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

41.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

42.

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]

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43.

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

44.

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

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45.

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

Tupper, Martin

46.

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

Proverb

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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.

50.

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