Motivational Quotes

Prayer

Short prayers reach heaven.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Proverb

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

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

Hippocrates

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

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.

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

Juvenal

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

Cockburn, Alexander

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

O'Malley, Austin

10.

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

Seneca

11.

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

Lessing, Gotthold

12.

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

Tupper, Martin

13.

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

14.

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

Herbert, George

15.

Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord by ceasing to pray for you, but I will instruct you in the good and right way. [I Samuel 12:23]

Bible

16.

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

Bible

17.

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

Lessing, Doris

18.

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

19.

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

20.

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

Oscar Wilde

21.

Most men pray for power, the strength to do things. Few people pray for love, the quality to be someone.

Foster, Robert D.

22.

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

Schillerbuch

23.

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

Rader, Lyell

24.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

25.

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

26.

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

27.

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

Temple, Sir William

28.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

29.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

30.

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

Bible

31.

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

Cohen, Leonard

32.

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

33.

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

Augustine, St.

34.

We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

35.

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

Proverb, Indian

36.

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

Robson, Dame Flora

37.

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.

38.

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

39.

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

Michalski, Stan

40.

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.

41.

Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

42.

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

Bernanos, Georges

43.

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

44.

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

45.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

46.

Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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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.