Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Rader, Lyell

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

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

Tupper, Martin

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

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

Proverb

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

Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

10.

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

Seneca

11.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

12.

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

Hippocrates

13.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Prayer is a passport to heaven. Your communication with God.

17.

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

18.

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

Proverb

19.

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

Proverb, English

20.

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

Rader, Lyell

21.

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

Real Live Preacher

22.

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

23.

Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

24.

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

Temple, Sir William

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

32.

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

33.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Oscar Wilde

37.

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

O'Malley, Austin

39.

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

40.

We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

41.

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

42.

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

43.

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

Brault, Robert

44.

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

Illich, Ivan

45.

Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

46.

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

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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

48.

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

Wolpe, David J.

49.

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

50.

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

Michalski, Stan