Do not pray for an easy life but strength to endure

• O, do not pray for easy lives. Phillips Brooks
• Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. John F. Kennedy
• Don’t pray for lighter burdens, but for stronger backs. Gautama Buddha
• I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back. Phillips Brooks
• Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one. Bruce Lee
• Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them. Rabindranath Tagore
• Being mortal, never pray for an untroubled life. Rather, ask the God to give you an enduring heart. Menander
• I did not pray for any relief, but I prayed for strength to suffer with courage, humility and love. Brother Lawrence
• When you face the perils of weariness, carelessness, and confusion, don’t pray for an easier life. Pray instead to be a stronger man or woman of God. Luis Palau
• We shouldn’t pray for a lighter load to carry but a stronger back to endure! Then the world will see that God is with us, empowering us to live in a way that reflects his love and power. Brother Yun
• It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal. Helen Keller
• Yes, I pray that my pain might be removed, that it might cease; but more so, I pray for the strength to bear it, the grace to benefit from it, and the devotion to offer it up to God as a sacrifice of praise. Joni Eareckson Tada
• Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger. 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 a miracle. Every day you shall wonder at yourself–at the richness of life which has come to you by the grace of God. Solanus Casey
• What then are we to do about our problems? We must learn to live with them until such time as God delivers us from them…we must pray for grace to endure them without murmuring. Problems patiently endured will work for our spiritual perfecting. They harm us only when we resist them or endure them unwillingly. Aiden Wilson Tozer
• Never pray to God for release of your problems. Never pray to God to change your life, and to give you something better. This is wrong prayer. If you have to pray to God, pray to God to give you the strength and the wisdom and the courage that you need to be able to handle the situation that you’re in. This is correct prayer. Robert Adams
• 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 a miracle. Every day you shall wonder at yourself, at the richness of life which has come to you by the grace of God. Not in doing what you like but in liking what you do is the secret of happiness. James M. Barrie
• Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain but for the heart to conquer it. Let me not look for allies in life’s battlefield but to my own strength. Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved but hope for the patience to win my freedom. Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; but let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure. Rabindranath Tagore

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Pray for strength

• Pray for the strength to walk the high road, which at times may be lonely but which will lead to peace and happiness and joy supernal. Gordon B. Hinckley
• If you need a transfusion of spiritual strength then just ask for it. We call that Prayer. Prayer is powerful spiritual medicine. Boyd K. Packer
• A key to improved prayer is to learn to ask the right questions. Consider changing from asking for the things you want to honestly seeking what He wants for you. Then as you learn His will, pray that you will be led to have the strength to fulfill it. Richard G. Scott
• In the quiet hours, in the heat of battle, and through the hazards of the day; in times of temptation, of sorrow, of peace and of blessing, let us pray always, both alone, and with our families gathered around us, with gratitude for the blessings of life, for understanding of its problems, and for strength to endure to the end. Heber J. Grant
• We must learn to pray out of our weaknesses so that God can become our strength. Joan D. Chittister
• There is no end to the good we can do, to the influence we can have with others. Let us not dwell on the critical or the negative. Let us pray for strength; let us pray for capacity and desire to assist others. Let us radiate the light of the gospel at all times and all places, that the Spirit of the Redeemer may radiate from us. Gordon B. Hinckley
• People who pray for miracles usually don’t get miracles. But people who pray for courage, for strength to bear the unbearable, for the grace to remember what they have left instead of what they have lost, very often find their prayers answered. Their prayers help them tap hidden reserves of faith and courage that were not available to them before. Harold S. Kushner
• I used to pray for answers, but now I’m praying for strength. I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us and we change things. Mother Teresa
• You pray for yourself and just ask God to give you strength. Benjamin Carson

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Prayer brings strength

• I believe in prayer. It’s the best way we have to draw strength from heaven. Josephine Baker
• Patience, prayer and silence-these are what give strength to the soul. Mary Faustina Kowalska
• Prayer, as a means of drawing ever new strength from Christ, is concretely and urgently needed. Pope Benedict XVI
• We pray to you, O God … for strength, determination, and willpower, to do instead of just to pray, to become instead of merely to wish. Harold S. Kushner
• Prayer is helplessness casting itself on Power, infirmity leaning on Strength, misery reaching to Mercy, and a prisoner clamoring for Relief. Fulton J. Sheen
• God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers. Abdul Kalam
• Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strength. Alexis Carrel
• My whole strength lies in prayer and sacrifice, these are my invincible arms; they can move hearts far better than words, I know it by experience. Therese of Lisieux
• Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one’s self. When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater than his own. Madame de Stael
• Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one’s self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own. Madame de Stael
• Prayer! I couldn’t live without it; I would have died a thousand times if it had not been for my chance to talk it over with God, and gain strength in it from him. Dale Evans
• When one is in very great pain and fear, it is extremely difficult to pray coherently, and I could only raise my mind in anguish to God and ask for strength to hold on. Sheila Cassidy
• Prayer girds human weakness with divine strength, turns human folly into heavenly wisdom, and gives to troubled mortals the peace of God. We know not what prayer can do. Charles Spurgeon
• The relationship to one’s fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one’s striving. Franz Kafka
• A thousand experiences have convinced me beyond room of doubt that prayer multiplies the strength of the individual and brings within the scope of his capabilities almost any conceivable objective. Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Prayer is the acid test of the inner man’s strength. A strong spirit is capable of praying much and praying with all perseverance until the answer comes. A weak one grows weary and fainthearted in the maintenance of praying. Watchman Nee
• Prayer plumes the wings of God’s young eaglets so that they may learn to mount above the clouds. Prayer brings inner strength to God’s warriors and sends them forth to spiritual battle with their muscles firm and their armor in place. Charles Spurgeon
• Prayer is a great tower of strength, a pillar of unending righteousness, a mighty force that moves mountains and saves souls. Through it the sick are healed, the dead are raised, and the Holy Spirit is poured out without measure upon the faithful. Bruce R. McConkie
• Through persistence, self-knowledge, prayer, commitment, optimism, a resolute trust in God and the building of your own personal moral strength, you can enjoy the blessings of a deeper faith and face the difficulties of life with courage and confidence. Norman Vincent Peale
• Prayer and meditation are my inner secret and my outer secret. My muscles are next to nothing compared to the muscles of the professional bodybuilders and weightlifters. It is because of the strength of my prayer-life and meditation-life that I am able to accomplish these feats of strength. Sri Chinmoy
• Prayer requires that we stand in God’s presence with open hands, naked and vulnerable, proclaiming to ourselves and to others that without God we can do nothing. As disciples, we find not some but all of our strength, hope, courage, and confidence in God. Therefore, prayer must be our first concern. Henri Nouwen
• Prayer cleanses from sin, drives away temptations, stamps out persecutions, comforts the fainthearted, gives new strength to the courageous, brings travellers safely home, calms the waves, confounds robbers, feeds the poor, overrules the rich, lifts up the fallen, supports those who are falling, sustains those who stand firm. Tertullian
• Life is a hard fight, a struggle, a wrestling with the principle of evil, hand to hand, foot to foot. Every inch of the way is disputed. The night is given us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power. The day, to use the strength which has been given us, to go forth to work with it till the evening. Florence Nightingale
• Prayer gives us strength for great ideals, for keeping up our faith, charity, purity, generosity; prayer gives us strength to rise up from indifference and guilt, if we have had the misfortune to give in to temptation and weakness. Prayer gives us light by which to see and to judge from God’s perspective and from eternity. That is why you must not give up on praying! Pope John Paul II

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Prayer brings power

• We kneel, how weak; we rise, how full of power! Richard Chenevix Trench
• Prayer is like water – something you can’t imagine has the strength or power to do any good, and yet give it time and it can change the lay of the land. Jodi Picoult
• There is power through prayer. Edward McKendree Bounds
• Pray on, dear one- the power lies that way. Mary Slessor
• Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart. Ruth Graham
• When we pray we link ourselves with an inexhaustible motive power. Alexis Carrel
• There is power in prayer. When men work, they work. but when men pray, God works. Angus Buchan
• Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Phillips Brooks
• Life comes after you have been filled with the Holy Spirit. Get down and pray for power. Smith Wigglesworth
• When we pray, we make tremendous power available, dynamic in its working, causing changes in our favour. Chris Oyakhilome
• Every day I pray. I yield myself to God and the tensions and anxieties go out of me and peace and power come in. Dale Carnegie
• Prayer is the most powerful form of energy one can generate….It supplies us with a flow of sustaining power in our daily lives. Alexis Carrel
• Whatever your problem, no matter how difficult, you can release spiritual power sufficient to solve your problem. The secret is–pray and believe. Norman Vincent Peale
• We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power. We have a great deal of activity, but we accomplish little; many services but few conversions; much machinery but few results. A. Torrey
• I’ve always believed in the power of prayer. One prayer can accomplish more than a thousand plans. That isn’t a magic formula, but it’s an idea that if you pray, keep praying and then praying some more. Mark Batterson
• They who pray with faith have fervour and fervour is the fire of prayer. This mysterious fire has the power of consuming all our faults and imperfections, and of giving to our actions, vitality, beauty and merit. Frances Xavier Cabrini
• The wonderful thing about praying is that you leave a world of not being able to do something, and enter God’s realm where everything is possible. He specializes in the impossible. Nothing is too great for His almighty power. Nothing is too small for His love. Corrie Ten Boom
• When you pray, you open yourself to the influence of the power which has revealed itself as love. The power gives you freedom and independence. Once touched by this power, you are no longer swayed back and forth by the countless opinions, ideas, and feelings which flow through you. You have found a center for your life that gives you a creative distance so that everything you see, hear, and feel can be tested against the source. Henri Nouwen
• It’s a risky thing to pray and the danger is that our very prayers get between God and us. The great thing in prayer is not to pray, but to go directly to God. . . . The fact is, though, that if you descend into the depths of your own spirit and arrive somewhere near the center of what you are, you are confronted with the inescapable truth that, at the very root of your existence, you are in constant and immediate contact with the infinite power of God. Thomas Merton

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