Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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.

Best Quotes about Prayer

1.

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

Proverb

2.

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

3.

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

Lessing, Doris

4.

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

Illich, Ivan

5.

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

Brault, Robert

6.

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

Proverb, Jewish

7.

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

8.

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

Barr, Amelia E.

9.

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

10.

Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

11.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

12.

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

Bible

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.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

15.

Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

16.

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

Eckhart, Meister

17.

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

Cockburn, Alexander

18.

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

Seneca

19.

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

20.

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

Tupper, Martin

21.

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

22.

Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

23.

Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.

Gandhi, Mahatma

24.

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

Meister Eckhart

25.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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.

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

Rader, Lyell

28.

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

29.

Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

30.

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.

31.

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

Schillerbuch

32.

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

33.

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

G. E. Lessing

34.

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.

35.

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

Bible

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

39.

Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

40.

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

Proverb, Indian

41.

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

Hippocrates

42.

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

Foster, Robert D.

43.

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

Lessing, Gotthold

44.

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

Wolpe, David J.

45.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

46.

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

47.

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

48.

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

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

49.

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.

50.

The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it.