Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Baudelaire, Charles

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Cohen, Leonard

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

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

Tupper, Martin

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

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

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

Meister Eckhart

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

10.

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

11.

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

12.

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

13.

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

Real Live Preacher

14.

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

Rader, Lyell

15.

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

Bible

16.

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

17.

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

Oscar Wilde

18.

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

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

19.

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

20.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

21.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

22.

Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

23.

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

24.

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

Temple, Sir William

25.

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

Brault, Robert

26.

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

27.

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

Voltaire

28.

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

29.

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

30.

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

Proverb

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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.

35.

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

Hippocrates

36.

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

Wolpe, David J.

37.

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

Seneca

38.

Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

39.

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

Proverb, Jewish

40.

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

41.

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

Bible

42.

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.

43.

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

Tomlin, Lily

44.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

45.

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.

46.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

47.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

48.

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

Socrates

49.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

50.

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