Quotes About Devotion

I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.

Every step in the progress of missions is directly traceable to prayer.

The most important of your affairs in my view is prayer; whoever prays regularly has protected his faith, but whoever neglects it, is bound to be more negligent in other issues of faith.

Prayer is the way to die to our own wishes and surrender everything to God.

The best weapons of a Jew are his prayers.

The neglect of prayer is a grand hindrance to holiness.

I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.

The stillness of prayer is the most essential condition for fruitful action. Before all else, the disciple kneels down.

The definition of prayer is paying careful and concentrated attention to something other than your own constructions.

The greatest and best talent that God gives to any man or woman in this world is the talent of prayer.

My prayers are just an outpouring of gratitude for the assurance of that most completely desired Will of God, which will seem all the more desirable in all that is ahead.

If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing.

He who prays as he ought will endeavor to live as he prays.

The paintings are like prayers, relating to wishing for something beyond everyday life.

Puja (worship) is offering to God, prathana (prayer) is demanding from God. When we pray by offering all our karma and even ourselves to God, the prayer fruitifies.

The determined fixing of our will upon God, and pressing toward him steadily and without deflection; this is the very center and the art of prayer.

The whole meaning of prayer is that we may know God.

Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.

Men would pray better if they lived better. They would get more from God if they lived more obedient and well-pleasing to God.

Day by day, dear Lord, of thee three things I pray: to see thee more clearly, love thee more dearly, follow thee more nearly, day by day.

No man - I don't care how colossal his intellect - No man is greater than his prayer life.

No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack.

I believe that there is no prayer without fasting, and there is no real fast without prayer.

What is the cause of most backslidings? I believe, as a general rule, one of the chief causes is neglect of private prayer.