Prayer Quotes

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

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

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

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.

Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man.

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

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

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

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

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

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these may come from a deeper level than feeling. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when He catches us, as it were, off our guard.

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

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

God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one; but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things.

The most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by Homo Sapiens is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universes, wants the sacharrine adoration of his creations, that he can be persuaded by their prayers, and becomes petulant if he does not recieve this flattery. Yet this ridiculous notion, without one real shred of evidence to bolster it, has gone on to found one of the oldest, largest and least productive industries in history.

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

An angry man is unfit to pray.

Before reciting his prayers, a man should give to charity.

Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.

I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day.

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.