Quotes About Devotion

Poetry to me is prayer.

Some men's prayers need to be cut short at both ends and set on fire in the middle.

Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.

Let us pray for all good and faithful priests who dedicate themselves to their people with generosity and unknown sacrifices.

O Lord, grant that I may do Thy will as if it were my will, so that Thou mayest do my will as if it were Thy will.

If you find your life of prayer to be always so short, and so easy, and so spiritual, as to be without cost and strain and sweat to you, you may depend upon it, you have not yet begun to pray.

If we ask of the saints how they achieved spiritual effectiveness, they are only able to reply that, insofar as they did it themselves, they did it by love and prayer.

Remember that bodily exercise, when it is well ordered, as I have said, is also prayer by means of which you can please God our Lord.

Between the humble and contrite heart and the majesty of Heaven there are no barriers; the only password is prayer.

One can believe intellectually in the efficacy of prayer and never do any praying.

Prayer is a powerful thing; for God has bound and tied himself thereunto.

The Living God alone can make us living men; the mighty God alone can make us mighty men; the loving God alone can make us consecrated men.

Prayer is the acid test of devotion.

The mightier any is in the word, the more mighty he will be in prayer.

Prayer is an ordinance of God, that must continue with a soul so long as it is on this side glory.

The Cinderella of the church of today is the prayer meeting.

I am so busy now that if I did not spend three hours each day in prayer, I could not get through the day.

The Christian is not always praying; but within his bosom is a heaven-kindled love--fires of desire, fervent longings--which make him always ready to pray, and often engage him in prayer.

Look at Him while He is looking at you.

A little lifting of the heart suffices; a little remembrance of God, one act of inward worship are prayers which, however short, are nevertheless acceptable to God.

Faith in a prayer-hearing God will make a prayer-loving Christian.

As the day comes to a close and we review what we have tried to do, again there should be that sense of committing everything to God.

Prayer continues in the desire of the heart, though the understanding be employed on outward things.

The right way to pray is to stretch out our hands and ask of One who we know has the heart of a Father.