Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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.

Best Quotes about Prayer

If I told you what it takes to reach the highest high you'd laugh and say nothing that simple, but you've been told many times before messiah's point you to the door though no one's got the guts to leave the temple.

Townsend, Peter

Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Wolpe, David J.

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

Voltaire

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

Cockburn, Alexander

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

Bible

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

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.

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

10.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

11.

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

12.

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

Proverb, English

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.

We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

15.

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

Bernanos, Georges

16.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

17.

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

Juvenal

18.

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

19.

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

20.

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

Hippocrates

21.

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

22.

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

Tomlin, Lily

23.

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

Rader, Lyell

24.

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.

25.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

26.

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

27.

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

28.

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

29.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

30.

Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

31.

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

32.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

33.

Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

34.

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

35.

Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

36.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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

Bible

39.

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

40.

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

Seneca

41.

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

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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

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

Foster, Robert D.

44.

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

45.

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

Tupper, Martin

46.

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

Proverb, Jewish

47.

Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

48.

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

50.

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

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