Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

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

Seneca

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

Lessing, Gotthold

Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Illich, Ivan

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

Bernanos, Georges

10.

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

Socrates

11.

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

12.

That prayer has great power which a person makes with all his might. It makes a sour heart sweet, a sad heart merry, a poor heart rich, a foolish heart wise, a timid heart brave, a sick heart well, a blind heart full of sight, a cold heart ardent. It draws down the great God into the little heart; it drives the hungry soul up into the fullness of God; it brings together two lovers, God and the soul, in a wondrous place where they speak much of love.

Magheburg, Mechthild of

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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

14.

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

Juvenal

15.

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

16.

Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

17.

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

18.

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.

19.

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

20.

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

Tupper, Martin

21.

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

Hugo, Victor

22.

When a man has done all he can do, still there is a mighty, mysterious agency over which he needs influence to secure success. The one way he can reach it is by prayer.

Conwell, Russel H.

23.

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

24.

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

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

25.

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

26.

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

Schillerbuch

27.

Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

28.

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

29.

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

Proverb, Jewish

30.

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

Eckhart, Meister

31.

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

32.

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.

33.

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

Barr, Amelia E.

34.

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

Bible

35.

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

Cockburn, Alexander

37.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

38.

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

Lessing, Doris

39.

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

40.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

42.

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

Robson, Dame Flora

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Michalski, Stan

48.

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

49.

Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish