Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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.

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

G. E. Lessing

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

Temple, Sir William

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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.

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

Eckhart, Meister

Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Socrates

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

Herbert, George

10.

Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

11.

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

12.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

13.

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

Cohen, Leonard

14.

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

Foster, Robert D.

15.

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

Seneca

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

Tupper, Martin

17.

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

18.

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

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

Oscar Wilde

20.

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

Lessing, Doris

21.

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

Buttrick, George

22.

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.

23.

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

24.

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

Bible

25.

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

Proverb, Indian

26.

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

Proverb

27.

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

28.

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

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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

31.

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

32.

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

Schillerbuch

33.

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

Augustine, St.

34.

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

35.

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

Cockburn, Alexander

36.

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

Real Live Preacher

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Juvenal

40.

Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

41.

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

42.

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.

43.

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

44.

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

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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

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

Bible

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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

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

Meister Eckhart

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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

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

Proverb, Jewish