Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Buttrick, George

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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

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

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Bible

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Foster, Robert D.

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

Herbert, George

10.

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

Proverb, Jewish

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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

Juvenal

15.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

17.

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

Michalski, Stan

18.

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.

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

Bernanos, Georges

20.

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

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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

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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.

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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.

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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

25.

Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

G. E. Lessing

27.

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

Meister Eckhart

28.

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

29.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

30.

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

Seneca

31.

Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

32.

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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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

34.

A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.

Lessing, Gotthold

35.

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

Brault, Robert

36.

Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

37.

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.

38.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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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

40.

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

Robson, Dame Flora

41.

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

Hugo, Victor

43.

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

Tupper, Martin

44.

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

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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

46.

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

Hippocrates

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

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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