Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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.

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Socrates

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

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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.

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

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.

10.

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]

Bible

11.

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

12.

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

13.

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

Wolpe, David J.

14.

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

O'Malley, Austin

15.

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

Cohen, Leonard

16.

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

17.

Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

18.

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

19.

When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't.

Temple, Sir William

20.

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

Proverb, English

21.

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.

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

23.

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

Michalski, Stan

24.

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

Real Live Preacher

25.

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

26.

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

Brault, Robert

27.

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

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

Buttrick, George

29.

Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

30.

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

Proverb

31.

Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us.

Selden, John

32.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

33.

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

34.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Juvenal

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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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If you can't pray a door open, don't pry it open.

Rader, Lyell

40.

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

Voltaire

41.

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

42.

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

Eckhart, Meister

43.

When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.

Peale, Norman Vincent

44.

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

G. E. Lessing

45.

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

Lessing, Doris

46.

Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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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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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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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

50.

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