Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

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

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

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

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Rader, Lyell

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

Augustine, St.

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

Lessing, Doris

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

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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

11.

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

Proverb, Jewish

12.

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.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

14.

Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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.

We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

17.

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

18.

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

O'Malley, Austin

19.

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

Bernanos, Georges

20.

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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21.

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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22.

Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

23.

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

Seneca

24.

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

Temple, Sir William

25.

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

Illich, Ivan

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

29.

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

Oscar Wilde

30.

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

Eckhart, Meister

31.

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

Robson, Dame Flora

32.

Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

33.

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.

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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

35.

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

36.

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

Seneca

37.

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

38.

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

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39.

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

40.

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

41.

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.

42.

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

Voltaire

43.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

44.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

45.

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

46.

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

Socrates

47.

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

Proverb, English

48.

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

Proverb, Indian

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