Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

Best Quotes about Prayer

1.

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

Proverb, Indian

2.

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

Bible

3.

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.

4.

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

5.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

6.

Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

7.

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.

8.

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

Schillerbuch

9.

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

Socrates

10.

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

11.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

12.

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.

13.

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

Bernanos, Georges

14.

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

Foster, Robert D.

15.

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

Lessing, Gotthold

16.

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

17.

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

Hippocrates

18.

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

Bible

19.

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

20.

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

Eckhart, Meister

21.

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

Hugo, Victor

22.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

23.

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.

24.

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

25.

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

Augustine, St.

26.

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

Voltaire

27.

Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

28.

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

Proverb, Jewish

29.

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

30.

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

Juvenal

31.

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

32.

If I regard wickedness in my heart the Lord will not hear. [Psalms 66:18]

Bible

33.

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

34.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

35.

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

36.

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

Michalski, Stan

37.

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

Buttrick, George

38.

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

Cockburn, Alexander

39.

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.