Quotes About Devotion

I am very defective in all duties... In prayer I wander and am formal... I soon tire; devotion languishes; and I do not walk with God.

The true believer can no more live without prayer, than without food day by day.

Intercessory prayer is the purifying bath into which the individual and the community must enter every day.

Hurry is the death of Prayer.

Brother, if you would enter that Province, you must go forward on your knees.

Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.

In these days there is no time to pray; but without time, and a lot of it, we shall never learn to pray.

with all prayer (Eph. 6:18)" All sorts of prayer- public, private, mental, vocal. Do not be diligent in one kind of prayer and negligent in others... let us use all.

Prayer is the fruit of joy and thankfulness.

Prayer is no substitute for work; equally true is it that work is no substitute for prayer.

He who sleeps without offering the night prayer, may he never enjoy a sound sleep.

Attentiveness is the heart of prayer.

Prayer is not the answer. God is the answer. Prayer is the vehicle by which we reach God.

If we do not feel like praying, then we should pray until we do feel like praying.

Art and prayer are the only decent ejaculations of the soul.

The more deeply we grow into the psalms and the more often we pray them as our own, the more simple and rich will our prayer become.

When we become too glib in prayer we are most surely talking to ourselves.

We must be still before God.

Prayer in secret is life finding expression in the realized Presence of God our Father.

Prayer shouldn't be casual or sporadic, dictated only by the needs of the moment. Prayer should be as much a part of our lives as breathing.

Believing prayer will lead to whole-hearted action.

There is nothing that torments Satan more than the sight of a faithful in prayer.

Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.

In souls filled with love, the desire to please God is continual prayer.