Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- O'Malley, Austin

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

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

Lessing, Doris

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.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.

Tupper, Martin

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

Herbert, George

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

Meister Eckhart

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

G. E. Lessing

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

Oscar Wilde

10.

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

11.

Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

12.

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

13.

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

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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

15.

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

16.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

18.

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

Tomlin, Lily

19.

Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

20.

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

21.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

22.

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

Juvenal

23.

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

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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

25.

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

Seneca

26.

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Seneca

30.

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

Barr, Amelia E.

31.

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

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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

33.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

34.

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

Cockburn, Alexander

35.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

36.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

O'Malley, Austin

38.

It is good to pray for the repair of mistakes, but praying earlier would keep us from making so many. When puzzled, go to prayer and listen.

Macaulay, J. C.

39.

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

Real Live Preacher

40.

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

41.

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

Voltaire

42.

Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

43.

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

Proverb, Jewish

44.

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

Proverb

45.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

46.

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

Proverb

48.

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

49.

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.

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

Socrates