Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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.

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

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

Wolpe, David J.

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

Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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

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

Real Live Preacher

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

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

Lessing, Doris

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

10.

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

Cockburn, Alexander

11.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

12.

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

Proverb, Indian

13.

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

Voltaire

14.

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

15.

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

Bible

16.

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

G. E. Lessing

17.

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

18.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

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

Cohen, Leonard

20.

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.

21.

Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Eckhart, Meister

25.

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

26.

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

Brault, Robert

27.

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

Rader, Lyell

28.

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

29.

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

Barr, Amelia E.

30.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Proverb, Jewish

34.

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

35.

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

Seneca

36.

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

37.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

38.

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

39.

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

Meister Eckhart

40.

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

Illich, Ivan

41.

Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

42.

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

Tomlin, Lily

43.

Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

44.

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

45.

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

Hippocrates

46.

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

Proverb, English

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Tupper, Martin

50.

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