Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Hippocrates

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Schillerbuch

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Barr, Amelia E.

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

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

Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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

Proverb

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Hippocrates

10.

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.

11.

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

Seneca

12.

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

13.

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

Voltaire

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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

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

Wolpe, David J.

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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

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

18.

One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.

G. E. Lessing

19.

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

Meister Eckhart

21.

Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

22.

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

O'Malley, Austin

23.

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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24.

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

Robson, Dame Flora

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

Michalski, Stan

27.

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

28.

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

Cohen, Leonard

29.

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

Lessing, Doris

30.

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

Foster, Robert D.

31.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

33.

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

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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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

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

37.

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

38.

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

Socrates

39.

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

Bible

40.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

43.

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

44.

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

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45.

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

Lessing, Gotthold

46.

The fates are not quite obdurate; they have a grim, sardonic way of granting them who supplicate the thing they wanted yesterday.

Montgomery, Roselle Mercier

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts let it not awaken like a frightened bird that flies about in dismay, but like a child waking from its sleep with a heavenly smile.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

49.

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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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.