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Quotes About Heart

Attentiveness is the heart of prayer.
~ Simone Weil
Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.
~ Teresa of Avila
Prayer is the song of the heart. It reaches the ear of God even if it is mingled with the cry and the tumult of a thousand men.
~ Khalil Gibran
Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of Himself.
~ Mother Teresa
The heart which has no agenda but God's is the heart at leisure from itself. Its emptiness is filled with the Love of God. Its solitude can be turned into prayer.
~ Elisabeth Elliot
I have come to drag you out of yourself and take you into my heart. I have come to bring out the beauty you never knew you had, and lift you like a prayer to the sky.
~ Rumi
At the heart of every revival is the spirit of prayer.
~ Arthur Wallis
The Secret of Praying is Praying in Secret. The secret place of prayer calls for every faculty of mind and heart.
~ Samuel Chadwick
The prayer that prevails is not the work of lips and fingertips. It is the cry of a broken heart and the travail of a stricken soul.
~ Samuel Chadwick
A little lifting of the heart suffices; a little remembrance of God, one act of inward worship are prayers which, however short, are nevertheless acceptable to God.
~ Brother Lawrence
Prayer continues in the desire of the heart, though the understanding be employed on outward things.
~ John Wesley
God warms his hands at man's heart when he prays.
~ John Masefield
Prayer need not be an activity we engage in for only an hour each morning. Rather, let us live in the atmosphere of prayer, our hearts continually being lifted up in prayer to Him.
~ K.P. Yohannan
I am in the House of Mercy, and my heart is a place of prayer.
~ Rumi
You can serve or you can sing, and wreck your heart in prayer, working the world's hard work.
~ Annie Dillard
When the heart gets into prayer, every beat of the heart creates a miracle.
~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi
Prayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of containing the gift of God himself. Prayer begets faith, faith begets love, and love begets service on behalf of the poor.
~ Mother Teresa
No prayers can be heard which do not come from a forgiving heart.
~ J. C. Ryle
The engagement of the heart in worship is the coming alive of the feelings and emotions and affections of the heart. Where feelings for God are dead, worship is dead.
~ John Piper
God will hear His people at the beginning of their prayers if the condition of their heart is ready for it.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Prayer and love are really learned in the hour when prayer becomes impossible and your heart turns to stone.
~ Thomas Merton
If our bones were not sending whispers of doubt to our hearts, there would be no need for prayer at all.
~ Mother Teresa
Prayer must emanate from the heart, where God resides, and not from the head where doctrines and doubts clash.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
Sometimes when your child talks, your friends cannot understand what he says; but the mother understands very well. So if our prayer comes from the heart, God understands our language.
~ Dwight L. Moody