Inspirations

The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.

- Duke of Wellington Arthur Wellesley

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.

- W H Auden

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

- Saint Augustine

It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.

- Henry Ward Beecher

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

- Georges Bernanos

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

Pray without ceasing. In everything give thanks.

- 1 Thessalonians, Bible

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

- Bible

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.

- Phillips Brooks

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.

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

- John Bunyan

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

- George Buttrick

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.

- Doctor Alex Carrel

We know little of the things for which we pray.

- Geoffrey Chaucer

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

- Leonard Cohen

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.

- Russel H Conwell

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

- Meister Eckhart

To be sure, this requires effort and love, a careful cultivation of the spiritual life, and a watchful, honest, active oversight of all one's mental attitudes towards things and people. It is not to be learned by world-flight, running away from things, turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, one must learn an inner solitude, where or with whomsoever he may be. He must learn to penetrate things and find God there, to get a strong impression of God firmly fixed on his mind.

- Meister Eckhart

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

- Robert D Foster

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

- Benjamin Franklin

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.

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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.

- Mahatma Gandhi

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

- Mahatma Gandhi

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

- Ruth Graham

I have not placed reading before praying because I regard it more important, but because, in order to pray aright, we must understand what we are praying for.

- Angelina Grimke

Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.

- Dag Hammarskjold

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

- George Herbert

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.

- Etty Hillesum

Prayer is the voice of faith.

- William Van Horne

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

- Victor Hugo

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.

- Saint John of the Cross

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.

- Lyndon B Johnson

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

- Decimus Junius Juvenalis Juvenal

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.

- Soren Kierkegaard

Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays.

- Soren Kierkegaard

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

- Soren Kierkegaard

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

- Doris Lessing

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

- Gotthold Lessing

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.

- Martin Luther

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.

- J C Macaulay

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.

- Mechthild of Magheburg

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

- Stan Michalski

Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.

- John Milton

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

- Austin O'Malley

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

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.

- Harold C Phillips

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

- Peace Pilgrim

Short prayers reach heaven.

- Proverb

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

- Proverb

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

- English Proverb

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

- Indian Proverb

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

- Jewish Proverb

Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

- Russian Proverb

Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

- Scottish Proverb

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

- Edward Bouverie Pusey

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

- Dame Flora Robson

It is from prayer that the spirit's victory springs.

- Schillerbuch

Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that, he knows best what is good for us.

- John Selden

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

- Seneca

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

- Seneca

Bow, stubborn knees!

- William Shakespeare

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

- Socrates

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.

- C Neil Strait

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

- Jeremy Taylor

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.

- Jeremy Taylor

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

- Sir William Temple

Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

- Lord Alfred Tennyson

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

- Source Unknown

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

- Source Unknown

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

- Source Unknown

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

- Source Unknown

Prayer moves the hand that moves the universe.

- Source Unknown

Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

- Source Unknown

We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them.

- Charles C West

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

- David J Wolpe

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Get Inspired for Happiness Strategy 11: Practicing Religion and Spirituality

The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.

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

It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.

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

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.

Pray without ceasing. In everything give thanks.

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

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.

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.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

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

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.

We know little of the things for which we pray.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

I have not placed reading before praying because I regard it more important, but because, in order to pray aright, we must understand what we are praying for.

Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.

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

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.

Prayer is the voice of faith.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays.

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

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

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

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.

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.

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

Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.

More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.

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

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

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.

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

Short prayers reach heaven.

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

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

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

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

Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

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

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

It is from prayer that the spirit's victory springs.

Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that, he knows best what is good for us.

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

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

Bow, stubborn knees!

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

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.

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

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.

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

Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

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

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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

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

Prayer moves the hand that moves the universe.

Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them.

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

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