Motivational Quotes

Prayer

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Barr, Amelia E.

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

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.

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

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

Proverb

Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

10.

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

11.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

12.

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

Robson, Dame Flora

13.

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

14.

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

15.

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

16.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

17.

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

Meister Eckhart

18.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

19.

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

Seneca

20.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

21.

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

22.

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

23.

Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

24.

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

Oscar Wilde

25.

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

Schillerbuch

26.

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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.

30.

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.

31.

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

32.

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

Cockburn, Alexander

33.

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

34.

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

Real Live Preacher

35.

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

Augustine, St.

37.

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

Eckhart, Meister

38.

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

Foster, Robert D.

39.

Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

40.

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

Proverb, Jewish

41.

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

42.

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

Juvenal

43.

We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

44.

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

45.

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

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

46.

Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

47.

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

Bible

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