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

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

Eckhart, Meister

Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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

Wolpe, David J.

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

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

Do not make prayer a monologue -- make it a conversation.

Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

15.

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

Hippocrates

16.

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

Proverb

17.

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

Socrates

18.

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

Bible

19.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

20.

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

Real Live Preacher

21.

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

Rader, Lyell

22.

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

Bible

23.

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

24.

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

Barr, Amelia E.

25.

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

26.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

27.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

28.

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

Proverb, Indian

29.

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

30.

The influence of prayer on the human mind and body is as demonstrable as that of secreting glands. Its results can be measured in terms of increased physical buoyancy, greater intellectual vigor, moral stamina, and a deeper understanding of the realities underlying human relationships.

Carrel, Dr. Alex

31.

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

Proverb, Jewish

32.

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

Herbert, George

33.

Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

34.

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

Lessing, Doris

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.

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

Bible

37.

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

38.

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

Lessing, Gotthold

39.

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

Tomlin, Lily

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

48.

Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

49.

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

Bernanos, Georges

50.

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.