Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Cockburn, Alexander

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

Meister Eckhart

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bible

Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

Taylor, Jeremy

10.

That prayer has great power which a person makes with all his might. It makes a sour heart sweet, a sad heart merry, a poor heart rich, a foolish heart wise, a timid heart brave, a sick heart well, a blind heart full of sight, a cold heart ardent. It draws down the great God into the little heart; it drives the hungry soul up into the fullness of God; it brings together two lovers, God and the soul, in a wondrous place where they speak much of love.

Magheburg, Mechthild of

11.

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

Herbert, George

12.

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

Robson, Dame Flora

13.

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

14.

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

Proverb, Indian

15.

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

Real Live Preacher

16.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

17.

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

Brault, Robert

18.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

19.

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

Bible

20.

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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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

22.

Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

23.

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

24.

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

25.

Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

26.

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

Seneca

27.

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

Foster, Robert D.

28.

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.

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Proverb, English

34.

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

Cohen, Leonard

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

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

Barr, Amelia E.

37.

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

38.

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

39.

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

40.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

42.

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

Tomlin, Lily

43.

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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Pray for what you want, but work for what you need.