Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

Best Quotes about Prayer

Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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

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

Juvenal

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

Seneca

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

Indeed many things which we shall not be able to discover either by the experiment of works or by the investigations of reason we shall deserve to be taught by importunate prayer, by the revelation of divine inspiration.

Richard of Saint Victor

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

10.

Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

11.

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

12.

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

13.

Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.

Barr, Amelia E.

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Wolpe, David J.

17.

Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

18.

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

Bible

19.

Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

20.

We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

21.

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

Michalski, Stan

22.

Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord by ceasing to pray for you, but I will instruct you in the good and right way. [I Samuel 12:23]

Bible

23.

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

24.

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

Rader, Lyell

25.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

26.

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

Schillerbuch

27.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

28.

Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

29.

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

Tomlin, Lily

30.

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

31.

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

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.

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

Bible

34.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

35.

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.

36.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

37.

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

38.

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

Socrates

39.

Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

40.

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

41.

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

Illich, Ivan

42.

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

Proverb, Jewish

43.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

44.

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

Bible

45.

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

46.

Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Temple, Sir William

50.

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

Lessing, Doris