Quotes About Devotion

For the faithful, Spirit-filled Christian, every place becomes a place of prayer.

Prayer is an earnest and familiar talking with God.

Prayer - secret, fervent, believing prayer - lies at the root of all personal godliness.

The purpose of prayer is emphatically not to bend God's will to ours, but rather to align our will to his.

The chief purpose of prayer is that God may be glorified in the answer.

Prayer is the raising of the mind to God. We must always remember this. The actual words matter less.

Only a life of prayer and meditation will render a vessel ready for the Master's use.

When I wake up, I immediately pray. When I go to sleep, I pray. Honestly, a prayer every second, in every breath. I suggest the whole world to do it. Prayer is amazing.

We look upon prayer simply as a means of getting things for ourselves, but the biblical purpose of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.

He who avoids prayer is avoiding everything that is good.

Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.

Always respond to every impulse to pray. The impulse to pray may come when you are reading or when you are battling with a text. I would make an absolute law of this: always obey such an impulse.

No day should be lived unless it was begun with a prayer of thankfulness and an intercession for guidance.

Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.

Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer.

Prayer is where the action is.

Prayer that is born of meditation upon the Word of God is the prayer that soars upward most easily to God's listening ears.

Those who pray from the heart do not think about the prayer they are saying, but about the God to whom they pray.

At the heart of silence is prayer. At the heart of prayer is faith. At the heart of faith is life. At the heart of life is service.

When the Holy Rosary is said well, it gives Jesus and Mary more glory and is more meritorious than any other prayer.

We should not pray for God to be on our side, but pray that we may be on God's side.

Backsliding, generally first begins with neglect of private prayer.

The supreme thing is worship. The attitude of worship is the attitude of a subject bent before the King... The fundamental thought is that of prostration, of bowing down.

Christians, instead of arming themselves with swords, extend their hands in prayer.