Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Proverb

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

Bible

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

To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention -- on a landscape, a poem, a geometrical problem, an idol, or the True God -- that he completely forgets his own ego and desires, he is praying. The primary task of the schoolteacher is to teach children, in a secular context, the technique of prayer.

Auden, W. H.

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

Cockburn, Alexander

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.

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

Hippocrates

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

10.

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

11.

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

Barr, Amelia E.

12.

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

Tupper, Martin

13.

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

Foster, Robert D.

14.

Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

15.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

16.

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

Bernanos, Georges

17.

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

Wolpe, David J.

18.

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

Proverb, Indian

19.

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.

20.

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

21.

That prayer has great power which a person makes with all his might. It makes a sour heart sweet, a sad heart merry, a poor heart rich, a foolish heart wise, a timid heart brave, a sick heart well, a blind heart full of sight, a cold heart ardent. It draws down the great God into the little heart; it drives the hungry soul up into the fullness of God; it brings together two lovers, God and the soul, in a wondrous place where they speak much of love.

Magheburg, Mechthild of

22.

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

Proverb, Jewish

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

27.

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

Lessing, Doris

28.

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

29.

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

Real Live Preacher

30.

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

Brault, Robert

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.

Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

33.

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

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.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

36.

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

G. E. Lessing

37.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

38.

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

39.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

40.

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

Michalski, Stan

41.

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

42.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

43.

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

Seneca

44.

Why is it when we talk to God, we're praying, but when God talks to us, we're schizophrenic?

Tomlin, Lily

45.

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

46.

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

Meister Eckhart

47.

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.

48.

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

49.

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

50.

Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William