Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Hugo, Victor

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

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

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Hippocrates

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

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

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

Wolpe, David J.

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

10.

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

11.

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

Lessing, Gotthold

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

15.

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

Brault, Robert

16.

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.

17.

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

Juvenal

18.

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

19.

Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

20.

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

Rader, Lyell

21.

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

22.

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

23.

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

24.

Ask God for what man can give, and you may get it.

Proverb, English

25.

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

Schillerbuch

26.

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.

27.

We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them.

West, Charles C.

28.

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

Seneca

29.

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

30.

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.

31.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

32.

Audible prayer can never do the works of spiritual understanding, which regenerates; but silent prayer, watchfulness, and devout obedience enable us to follow Jesus example. Long prayers, superstition, and creeds clip the strong pinions of love, and clothe religion in human forms. Whatever materializes worship hinders man's spiritual growth and keeps him from demonstrating his power over error.

Eddy, Mary Baker

33.

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

34.

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

35.

Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

36.

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

Proverb, Jewish

37.

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

Bernanos, Georges

38.

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

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

39.

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

Tomlin, Lily

40.

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

Proverb

41.

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

42.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

43.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

44.

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

Meister Eckhart

45.

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

Bible

46.

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

Franklin, Benjamin

47.

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

48.

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

49.

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

50.

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