Quotes About Devotion

Nowhere can we get to know the holiness of God, and come under His influence and power, except in the inner chamber. It has been well said: "No man can expect to make progress in holiness who is not often and long alone with God."

Private place and plenty of time are the life of prayer.

But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy room, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father who is in secret; and thy Father who seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.

Without the incense of heartfelt prayer, even the greatest of cathedrals is dead.

Follow your own way of speaking to our Lord sincerely, lovingly, confidently, and simply, as your heart dictates.

Prayers not felt by us are seldom heard by God.

God's ear lies close to the believer's lip.

Do not pray by heart, but with the heart.

Our prayers must mean something to us if they are to mean anything to God.

God eagerly awaits the chance to bless the person whose heart is turned toward Him.

In prayer the lips ne'er act the winning part, without the sweet concurrence of the heart.

When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart.

He offered a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed kneeling and praying at the bottom of the sea.

We cannot talk to God strongly when we have not lived for God strongly. The closet cannot be made holy to God when the life has not been holy to God.

Be not hot in prayer and cold in praise.

Prayer is the soul's sincere desire.

Productive prayer requires earnestness, not eloquence.

Prayer is a fine, delicate instrument. To use it right is a great art, a holy art. There is perhaps no greater art than the art of prayer. Yet the least gifted, the uneducated and the poor can cultivate the holy art of prayer.

There come times when I have nothing more to tell God. If I were to continue to pray in words, I would have to repeat what I have already said. At such times it is wonderful to say to God, "May I be in Thy presence, Lord? I have nothing more to say to Thee, but I do love to be in Thy presence."

Short prayers pierceth Heaven.

When we make self the end of prayer, it is not worship but self-seeking.

Pray without ceasing. In everything give thanks.

To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going down on one's knees and thanking him.

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.