Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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.

Best Quotes about Prayer

Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

If I regard wickedness in my heart the Lord will not hear. [Psalms 66:18]

Bible

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

10.

Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

11.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

12.

Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Eckhart, Meister

17.

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

Juvenal

18.

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

Buttrick, George

19.

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

Tomlin, Lily

20.

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

21.

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

Voltaire

22.

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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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.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

25.

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

Tupper, Martin

26.

We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

27.

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

G. E. Lessing

28.

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

29.

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

Augustine, St.

30.

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

Hippocrates

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

34.

Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

35.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

36.

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

Illich, Ivan

37.

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

Proverb, Jewish

38.

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

Seneca

39.

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

Temple, Sir William

40.

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

Robson, Dame Flora

41.

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

Meister Eckhart

42.

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

43.

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

44.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

45.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

46.

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.

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

Proverb

48.

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

Seneca

49.

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

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

Wolpe, David J.