Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Oscar Wilde

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Meister Eckhart

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

Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Augustine, St.

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Proverb, English

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

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

Gandhi, Mahatma

10.

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

Michalski, Stan

11.

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

Socrates

12.

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

13.

Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

14.

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

Schillerbuch

15.

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

16.

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

Illich, Ivan

17.

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

Bible

18.

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

Cockburn, Alexander

19.

Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

20.

Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.

Hemingway, Ernest

21.

Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

22.

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

Juvenal

23.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

24.

One hour in the execution of justice is worth seventy years of prayer.

Proverb

25.

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

Bernanos, Georges

26.

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

27.

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

Buttrick, George

28.

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

29.

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

Robson, Dame Flora

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

Seneca

31.

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

Wolpe, David J.

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. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.

Phillips Brooks

34.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

35.

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

36.

We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

37.

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

Gandhi, Mahatma

38.

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.

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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.

42.

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

Voltaire

43.

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

Real Live Preacher

44.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

45.

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

Barr, Amelia E.

46.

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

Proverb

47.

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

Hippocrates

48.

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

Seneca

49.

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

Eckhart, Meister

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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