Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

Best Quotes about Prayer

1.

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

2.

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

Meister Eckhart

3.

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

4.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

5.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

6.

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

Voltaire

7.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

8.

Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.

Hammarskjold, Dag

9.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

10.

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.

11.

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.

12.

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

Lessing, Gotthold

13.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

14.

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

15.

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

Cohen, Leonard

16.

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

Real Live Preacher

17.

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

18.

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

Seneca

19.

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

Augustine, St.

20.

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

21.

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

Hippocrates

22.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

23.

Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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.

27.

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

28.

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

Bible

29.

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

30.

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

Proverb, English

31.

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

Juvenal

32.

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

Robson, Dame Flora

33.

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

O'Malley, Austin

34.

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

35.

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

Eckhart, Meister

36.

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

Wolpe, David J.

37.

Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

41.

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

Proverb

42.

Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

43.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

44.

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

Rader, Lyell

45.

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

Brault, Robert

46.

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

Bernanos, Georges

47.

Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

48.

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.

49.

We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

50.

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