Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Schillerbuch

Best Quotes about Prayer

1.

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

Illich, Ivan

2.

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

Socrates

3.

Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

4.

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

Foster, Robert D.

5.

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

Herbert, George

6.

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

Cohen, Leonard

7.

Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

8.

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

Buttrick, George

9.

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

Cockburn, Alexander

10.

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

11.

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

Hugo, Victor

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Michalski, Stan

17.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

18.

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

19.

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.

20.

We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

21.

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

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

22.

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

Wolpe, David J.

23.

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

Seneca

24.

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

Barr, Amelia E.

25.

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

Oscar Wilde

26.

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

27.

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]

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28.

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

Hippocrates

29.

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

30.

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

Voltaire

31.

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

Meister Eckhart

32.

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

Proverb

33.

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

34.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

35.

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

36.

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

Schillerbuch

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

40.

Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

41.

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

Juvenal

42.

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

Brault, Robert

43.

Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

44.

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

45.

Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

46.

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

Proverb

47.

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.

48.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

49.

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

Bernanos, Georges

50.

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]

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