Quotes About Devotion

It's just the most amazing thing to love a dog, isn't it? It makes our relationships with people seem as boring as a bowl of oatmeal.

The only way to pray is to pray, and the way to pray well is to pray much.

Prayer is a trade to be learned. We must be apprentices and serve our time at it. Painstaking care, much thought, practice and labour are required to be a skillful tradesman in praying. Practice in this, as well as in all other trades, makes perfect.

If we are willing to spend hours on end to learn to play the piano, operate a computer, or fly an airplane, it is sheer nonsense for us to imagine that we can learn the high art of getting guidance through communion with the Lord without being willing to set aside time for it.

Dealing in generalities is the death of prayer.

Incense is prayer That drives no bargain. Child, learn from incense How best to pray.

When you cannot pray as you would, pray as you can.

Pray till you pray.

A day without prayer is a boast against God.

In the morning, prayer is the key that opens to us the treasures of God's mercies and blessings; in the evening, it is the key that shuts us up under His protection and safeguard.

Lord, you know how busy I must be this day. If I forget you, do not you forget me.

We read of preaching the Word out of season, but we do not read of praying out of season, for that is never out of season.

Let prayer be the key of the morning and the bolt at night.

Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray.

As impossible as it is for us to take a breath in the morning large enough to last us until noon, so impossible is it to pray in the morning in such a way as to last us until noon. Let your prayers ascend to Him constantly, audibly or silently, as circumstances throughout the day permit.

Constant prayer quickly straightens out our thoughts.

Other duties become pressing and absorbing and crowd our prayer. "Choked to death" would be the coroner's verdict in many cases of dead praying if an inquest could be secured on this dire, spiritual calamity.

While others still slept, He went away to pray and to renew His strength in communion with His Father. He had need of this, otherwise He would not have been ready for the new day. The holy work of delivering souls demands constant renewal through fellowship with God.

And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed.

Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything. Unless in the first waking moment of the day you learn to fling the door wide back and let God in, you will work on a wrong level all day; but swing the door wide open and pray to your Father in secret, and every public thing will be stamped with the presence of God.

Cause me to hear thy loving kindness in the morning.

In the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee.

I feel it is far better to begin with God, to see His face first, to get my soul near Him before it is near another. In general it is best to have at least one hour alone with God before engaging in anything else.

Lord, if any have to die this day, let it be me, for I am ready.