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

1.

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

2.

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

Cohen, Leonard

3.

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

4.

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

Brault, Robert

5.

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.

6.

No one can pray well, but those who live well.

Proverb

7.

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

Seneca

8.

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

9.

One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.

G. E. Lessing

10.

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

Lessing, Gotthold

11.

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

Robson, Dame Flora

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

14.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

15.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

16.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

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

Barr, Amelia E.

18.

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

Proverb, Jewish

19.

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

20.

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

Cockburn, Alexander

21.

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

Proverb, Indian

22.

Prayer is not a substitute for work, thinking, watching, suffering, or giving; prayer is a support for all other efforts.

Buttrick, George

23.

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

Bible

24.

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

Bernanos, Georges

25.

Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

26.

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

Proverb

27.

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

Proverb, English

28.

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

Seneca

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

32.

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

33.

Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

34.

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

35.

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

Hippocrates

36.

Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

37.

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

38.

We know little of the things for which we pray.