Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Schillerbuch

Best Quotes about Prayer

When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't.

Temple, Sir William

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

Your prayer must be for a sound mind in a sound body.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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.

Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Buttrick, George

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

10.

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

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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

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

Tomlin, Lily

13.

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

14.

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

Bible

15.

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

Hugo, Victor

16.

Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

17.

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

Voltaire

18.

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

Hippocrates

19.

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

O'Malley, Austin

20.

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

21.

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

Illich, Ivan

22.

Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

26.

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

Lessing, Doris

27.

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

Eckhart, Meister

28.

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

Lessing, Gotthold

29.

It is good to pray for the repair of mistakes, but praying earlier would keep us from making so many. When puzzled, go to prayer and listen.

Macaulay, J. C.

30.

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

31.

The influence of prayer on the human mind and body is as demonstrable as that of secreting glands. Its results can be measured in terms of increased physical buoyancy, greater intellectual vigor, moral stamina, and a deeper understanding of the realities underlying human relationships.

Carrel, Dr. Alex

32.

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

Foster, Robert D.

33.

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

Augustine, St.

34.

We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

35.

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

Robson, Dame Flora

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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

37.

Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

38.

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

Barr, Amelia E.

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

Proverb

40.

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

42.

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

Tupper, Martin

43.

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

Proverb, English

44.

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

Proverb, Indian

45.

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

Wolpe, David J.

46.

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.

47.

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

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

49.

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.

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

Michalski, Stan