Motivational Quotes

Prayer

Short prayers reach heaven.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Juvenal

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

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

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

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

Wolpe, David J.

Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Brault, Robert

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

10.

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

Proverb

11.

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

Buttrick, George

12.

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

Temple, Sir William

13.

Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Barr, Amelia E.

15.

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

Voltaire

16.

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

Cohen, Leonard

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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

18.

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.

19.

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

G. E. Lessing

20.

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

O'Malley, Austin

21.

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.

22.

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

Bible

23.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

24.

Heaven grant that the burden you carry may have as easy an exit as it had an entrance. [Prayer To A Pregnant Woman]

Erasmus, Desiderius

25.

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

Proverb, English

27.

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

Herbert, George

28.

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

Meister Eckhart

29.

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

30.

We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

31.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

32.

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.

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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

34.

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.

35.

You can pray for someone even if you don't think God exists.

Real Live Preacher

36.

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

Socrates

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

Hippocrates

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

41.

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

Bible

42.

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

Proverb, Jewish

43.

Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it.

Taylor, Jeremy

44.

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

Eckhart, Meister

45.

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Michalski, Stan

48.

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

Proverb, Indian

49.

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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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