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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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

Juvenal

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

Bible

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

Voltaire

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Hippocrates

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

Proverb

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.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Brault, Robert

14.

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

15.

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

Schillerbuch

16.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

17.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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.

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

Illich, Ivan

24.

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

25.

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

Hugo, Victor

26.

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

27.

Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

28.

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

29.

If I told you what it takes to reach the highest high you'd laugh and say nothing that simple, but you've been told many times before messiah's point you to the door though no one's got the guts to leave the temple.

Townsend, Peter

30.

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

Robson, Dame Flora

31.

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

Meister Eckhart

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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

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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

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

Tupper, Martin

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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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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

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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.

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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

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

Foster, Robert D.

40.

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

Tomlin, Lily

41.

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

Proverb, English

42.

Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

43.

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

Real Live Preacher

44.

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

Eckhart, Meister

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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.

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

Proverb, Jewish

47.

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

Oscar Wilde

48.

Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

49.

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

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

Proverb