Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Tupper, Martin

Best Quotes about Prayer

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.

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

Herbert, George

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

Robson, Dame Flora

Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Voltaire

10.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

11.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

12.

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

13.

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

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

17.

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

18.

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

Eckhart, Meister

19.

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

Lessing, Doris

20.

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.

21.

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

Tupper, Martin

22.

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

Seneca

23.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

24.

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

Bible

25.

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

Foster, Robert D.

26.

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

Proverb, English

27.

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

28.

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

O'Malley, Austin

29.

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

Cohen, Leonard

30.

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

Meister Eckhart

31.

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

32.

The fates are not quite obdurate; they have a grim, sardonic way of granting them who supplicate the thing they wanted yesterday.

Montgomery, Roselle Mercier

33.

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

34.

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

Rader, Lyell

35.

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

36.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

37.

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

Illich, Ivan

38.

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

Proverb

39.

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

Bernanos, Georges

40.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

41.

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

42.

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

Oscar Wilde

43.

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

44.

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

Buttrick, George

46.

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

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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

48.

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

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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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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb