Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Hippocrates

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

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

Cockburn, Alexander

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

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

Temple, Sir William

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

Seneca

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

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

Meister Eckhart

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

13.

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

Eckhart, Meister

14.

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

15.

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

16.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

17.

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

18.

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.

19.

Prayer is not a substitute for work, thinking, watching, suffering, or giving; prayer is a support for all other efforts.

Buttrick, George

20.

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

21.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

22.

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

Bernanos, Georges

23.

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

Barr, Amelia E.

24.

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

25.

Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

26.

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.

27.

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

Foster, Robert D.

28.

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

29.

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.

30.

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

31.

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

Illich, Ivan

32.

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

Hugo, Victor

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.

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

35.

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.

36.

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

37.

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

Bible

38.

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

G. E. Lessing

39.

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

40.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

41.

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

42.

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

Herbert, George

43.

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