Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

Best Quotes about Prayer

1.

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

Augustine, St.

2.

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

3.

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

4.

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

Eckhart, Meister

5.

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.

6.

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

7.

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]

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8.

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

9.

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

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10.

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

Bernanos, Georges

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Juvenal

14.

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

Voltaire

15.

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

Tomlin, Lily

16.

Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

17.

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.

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.

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

20.

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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21.

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

Illich, Ivan

22.

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

O'Malley, Austin

23.

Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.

Hemingway, Ernest

24.

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

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25.

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

Socrates

26.

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.

27.

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

28.

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

Wolpe, David J.

29.

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

Hippocrates

30.

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

31.

Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Oscar Wilde

35.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

36.

Practice in life whatever you pray for and God will give it to you more abundantly.

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

37.

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

Michalski, Stan

38.

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

Proverb, English

39.

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

Lessing, Gotthold

40.

Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

41.

You must pray that the way be long, full of adventures and experiences.

Constantine Peter Cavafy

42.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

43.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

44.

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

45.

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

Meister Eckhart

46.

Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes.

Hillesum, Etty

47.

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

48.

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

Proverb

49.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

50.

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