Quotes About Devotion

The purpose of all prayer is to find God's will and to make that our prayer

By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.

Being a person of prayer is the most important calling in one's life.

He prayeth best who loveth best.

The third petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone's will be done but their own.

In the life of the Indian there is only one inevitable duty-the duty of prayer-the daily recognition of the Unseen and Eternal. Our daily devotions were more necessary to us than daily food.

The most important lesson we can learn is how to pray. Prayers do not die, prayers live before God, and God's heart is set on them.

All vital praying makes a drain on a man's vitality. True intercession is a sacrifice, a bleeding sacrifice.

God has no greater controversy with His people today than this, that with boundless promises to believing prayer, there are so few who actually give themselves unto intercession.

It is possible to offer fervent prayer even while walking in public or strolling alone or seated in your shop ... while buying or selling ... or even while cooking.

The purpose of prayer and of God's call in your life isn't to make you number one in the world's eyes but to make Him number one in your life.

One of the first, and most important of those duties which are incumbent upon us, is fervent and united prayer.

He that loveth little prayeth little, he that loveth much prayeth much.

In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.

Prayer is the breath of the new creature.

Many prayers are declined because of the rank odor of a corrupt heart, rising through the beautiful words. Let the words be wrong but the meaning right. . . . That flawed utterance is dearer to God!

All great art is a visual form of prayer.

I wish to say to the Latter-day Saints, all that we have to do is be faithful, to keep His commandments, to be humble, to seek Him in mighty prayer, and all will be well with us.

The little estimate we put on prayer is evidence from the little time we give to it.

The word of God is the food by which prayer is nourished and made strong.

It is necessary to rouse the heart to pray, otherwise it will become quite dry. The attributes of prayer must be: love of God, sincerity, and simplicity.

Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work.

The men who have done the most for God in this world have been early on their knees.

A holy life does not live in the closet, but it cannot live without the closet.