Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Pusey, Edward Bouverie

Best Quotes about Prayer

1.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

2.

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

Hugo, Victor

3.

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

Brault, Robert

4.

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

Foster, Robert D.

5.

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

Socrates

6.

Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

7.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

8.

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

9.

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

Rader, Lyell

10.

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

O'Malley, Austin

11.

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

Oscar Wilde

12.

Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Proverb, Jewish

16.

There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

17.

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

Herbert, George

18.

We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

19.

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

Proverb

20.

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

Wolpe, David J.

21.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

22.

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.

23.

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

Robson, Dame Flora

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Proverb, Indian

27.

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

28.

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

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29.

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

30.

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

Bernanos, Georges

31.

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

Schillerbuch

32.

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

G. E. Lessing

33.

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.

34.

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

35.

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

Lessing, Doris

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

39.

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

40.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

41.

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