Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Prayer

1.

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

Proverb, Jewish

2.

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

Lessing, Gotthold

3.

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.

4.

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

5.

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

Seneca

6.

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

Herbert, George

7.

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

Proverb, English

8.

The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.

Baudelaire, Charles

9.

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

Proverb

10.

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

Juvenal

11.

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

12.

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

Brault, Robert

13.

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

Barr, Amelia E.

14.

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

Bernanos, Georges

15.

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

Schillerbuch

16.

Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

17.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

18.

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

19.

To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention -- on a landscape, a poem, a geometrical problem, an idol, or the True God -- that he completely forgets his own ego and desires, he is praying. The primary task of the schoolteacher is to teach children, in a secular context, the technique of prayer.

Auden, W. H.

20.

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

Bible

21.

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

Tomlin, Lily

22.

Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

23.

Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

24.

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

O'Malley, Austin

25.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

26.

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

27.

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.

28.

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

Wolpe, David J.

29.

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

Meister Eckhart

30.

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

Buttrick, George

31.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

33.

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

34.

Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

35.

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

36.

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

Proverb

37.

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

Real Live Preacher

38.

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

39.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

40.

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

41.

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

Bible

42.

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

43.

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

Bible

44.

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

45.

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.

46.

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.