Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

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

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

Real Live Preacher

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

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

Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Bible

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.

Hugo, Victor

10.

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

Seneca

11.

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.

12.

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

Augustine, St.

13.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

14.

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

Illich, Ivan

15.

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

Proverb, English

16.

We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

17.

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.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

19.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

20.

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

21.

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

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

Tupper, Martin

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

Eckhart, Meister

25.

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

Michalski, Stan

26.

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

27.

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

Socrates

28.

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

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

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

30.

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

Foster, Robert D.

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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

32.

Take God for your spouse and friend and walk with him continually, and you will not sin and will learn to love, and the things you must do will work out prosperously for you.

John of the Cross, St.

33.

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

Bible

34.

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

35.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bible

37.

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

Bernanos, Georges

39.

Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

40.

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

Rader, Lyell

41.

Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

42.

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

43.

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

44.

The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it.

Josh Billings

45.

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

Lessing, Doris

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

Meister Eckhart

48.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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