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

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.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Temple, Sir William

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

Michalski, Stan

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

10.

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

Robson, Dame Flora

11.

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

Buttrick, George

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

Seneca

15.

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

Juvenal

16.

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

Barr, Amelia E.

17.

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

Tomlin, Lily

18.

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.

19.

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

Augustine, St.

20.

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.

21.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

22.

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

23.

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.

24.

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

25.

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

26.

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

27.

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.

28.

Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

29.

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

Brault, Robert

30.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

31.

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

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

32.

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

Bible

33.

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

Hippocrates

34.

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

Wolpe, David J.

35.

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

Lessing, Gotthold

36.

Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

37.

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

Rader, Lyell

38.

Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

39.

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

Proverb, English

40.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

42.

We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

43.

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

G. E. Lessing

44.

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

Proverb

45.

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

Oscar Wilde

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Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.

O'Malley, Austin

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

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

Proverb, Jewish