Quotes About Devotion

Prayer meetings are the throbbing machinery of the church.

Show me a church or a Christian organization that emphasizes prayer, and I'll show you a ministry where people are excited about Jesus Christ and are witnessing for Him.

The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.

Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.

To be prayerless is to be without God, without Christ, without grace, without hope, and without heaven.

The best and sweetest flowers of paradise God gives to His people when they are upon their knees. Prayer is the gate of heaven.

Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you.

Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God

Let me burn out for God. After all, whatever God may appoint, prayer is the great thing. Oh, that I might be a man of prayer!

If God is not first in our thoughts and efforts in the morning, He will be in the last place the remainder of the day.

The ministry of prayer, if it be anything worthy of the name, is a ministry of ardor, a ministry of unwearied and intense longing after God and after his holiness.

Prayer is not learned in a classroom but in the closet.

Prayer is the only adequate way to multiply our efforts fast enough to reap the harvest God desires.

He who interrupts the course of his spiritual exercises and prayer is like a man who allows a bird to escape from his hand; he can hardly catch it again.

Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.

A man who prays much in private will make short prayers in public.

Fasting detaches you from this world. Prayer reattaches you to the next world.

Fingers interlocked like a beautiful accordion of flesh or a zipper of prayer

Prayer opens our lives for God so his will can be done in and through us, because in true prayer we habitually put ourselves into the attitude of willingness to do whatever God wills.

Whether or not our prayer is heard depends not on the number of our words, but on the fervor of our souls.

Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.

Prayer is the greatest force that we can wield. It is the greatest talent which God has granted us. He has given it to every Christian.

The best we can say to God in prayer, is what He has said to us.

Prayer doesn't bend God's arm but it's guaranteed to bend our hearts toward His will. Worry less. Pray more.