Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- O'Malley, Austin

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Proverb

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

Seneca

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

Michalski, Stan

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Hugo, Victor

We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Robson, Dame Flora

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

Gandhi, Mahatma

10.

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

Bernanos, Georges

11.

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

12.

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

Bible

13.

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.

14.

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

Cohen, Leonard

15.

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

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

Hippocrates

17.

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

18.

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

Eckhart, Meister

19.

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

Proverb, Indian

20.

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

Augustine, St.

21.

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

22.

Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

23.

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

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Prayer is talking with God and telling Him you love Him, conversing with God about all the things that are important in life, both large and small, and being assured that He is listening.

Strait, C. Neil

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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

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The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it.

Josh Billings

27.

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

28.

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

Proverb

29.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

30.

Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

31.

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

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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.

33.

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

Voltaire

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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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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

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

Wolpe, David J.

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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

41.

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

Barr, Amelia E.

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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

43.

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

Proverb, English

44.

When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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.

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If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.

Meister Eckhart

47.

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

G. E. Lessing

48.

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

49.

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

Baudelaire, Charles