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

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

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.

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.

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

Socrates

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Tupper, Martin

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Proverb

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Herbert, George

13.

We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

14.

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

Schillerbuch

15.

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

16.

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.

17.

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

Hippocrates

18.

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Augustine, St.

22.

Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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.

26.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

27.

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

28.

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.

29.

Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

30.

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

31.

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

Meister Eckhart

32.

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

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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 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

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

Robson, Dame Flora

36.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

37.

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

38.

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

Bible

39.

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

40.

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

Michalski, Stan

41.

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

G. E. Lessing

42.

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

Buttrick, George

45.

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

Hugo, Victor

46.

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

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

Wolpe, David J.

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

Illich, Ivan

49.

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

Barr, Amelia E.

50.

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