Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Barr, Amelia E.

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.

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

Voltaire

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Proverb, English

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

Bible

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

Bible

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

Hugo, Victor

10.

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

Oscar Wilde

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Hippocrates

14.

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

15.

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

Herbert, George

16.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

17.

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.

18.

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

Illich, Ivan

19.

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

20.

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

Meister Eckhart

21.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

22.

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

23.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

24.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

25.

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

Michalski, Stan

26.

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

Proverb, Jewish

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

30.

Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts let it not awaken like a frightened bird that flies about in dismay, but like a child waking from its sleep with a heavenly smile.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

31.

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

Seneca

32.

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.

33.

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

34.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Gandhi, Mahatma

35.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

36.

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

37.

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

Cohen, Leonard

38.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

39.

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

40.

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

Augustine, St.

41.

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

O'Malley, Austin

42.

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

Tupper, Martin

43.

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

Lessing, Gotthold

44.

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

Proverb

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Foster, Robert D.

48.

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

49.

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