Quotes About Devotion

Heavenly Father hears your prayers, He loves you. He knows your name. He loves you beyond your ability to comprehend.

When people are truly dedicated to the Divine, there is no difference between action and prayer.

As is the business of tailors to make clothes and cobblers to make shoes, so it is the business of Christians to pray.

Increase in prayer, increase in prayer, increase in prayer until Jesus comes.

The thermometer of a church is its prayer meeting.

We get nearer to the Lord through music than perhaps through any other thing except prayer.

He who is too busy to pray will be too busy to live a holy life. Satan had rather we let the grass grow on the path to our prayer chamber than anything else.

...True prayer is measured by weight, not by length. A single groan before God may have more fullness of prayer in it than a fine oration of great length.

Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.

If He prayed who was without sin, how much more it becometh a sinner to pray!

Prayer begets Revival, which begets more prayer.

The spirit of prayer is more precious than treasures of gold and silver.

Whole days and weeks have I spent prostrate on the ground in silent or vocal prayer.

When our hands have touched spices, they give fragrance to all they handle. Let us make our prayers pass through the hands of the Blessed Virgin. She will make them fragrant.

My prayer is that people will see that following Jesus costs you everything you are and everything you have. And my prayer is that people will see that Jesus is worth it.

Prayer is a grace through which we pour ourselves out before God and through which He calls us into His presence.

The prayer life does not consist of perpetual repetition of petitions. The prayer life consists of life that is always upward and onward and Godward

A servant of the Lord stands bodily before men, but mentally he is knocking at the gates of heaven with prayer.

Prayer is not getting things from God. That is a most initial stage; prayer is getting into perfect communion with God: I tell Him what I know He knows in order that I may get to know it as He does.

In order to succeed in it (prayer), it should be done when we first awaken, when our whole being is calm and recollected. We need to make our meditation before anything else.

If we pray little, it is probably because we do not really believe that prayer accomplishes much at all.

True prayer is a lonely business.

No man's prayer is acceptable with God whose life is not well pleasing before God.

The Rosary is a magnificent and universal prayer for the needs of the Church, the nations and the entire world.