Quotes About Devotion

When our will wholeheartedly enters into the prayer of Christ, then we pray correctly.

Yes, I like that word. "More" is a prayer to God, isn't it? Gratitude and plea, all in one.

Let us keep the flame of faith alive through prayer and the sacraments: let us make sure we do not forget God.

The stream of praying cannot rise higher than the fountain of living.

God's Word must be the guide of your desires and the ground of your expectations in prayer.

Never believe that true prayer consists in mere babbling, reciting so many psalms and vigils, saying your beads while you allow your thoughts to roam.

God's chief gift to those who seek him is Himself.

God is looking for people to use, and if you can get usable, he will wear you out. The most dangerous prayer you can pray is this: 'Use me.'

Prayer is the evidence that I am spiritually concentrated on God.

Allow yourself to be possessed by God by receiving Jesus, and you will never be possessed by anything else.

We may sing our hymns and psalms, and offer prayers, but they will be an abomination to God, unless we are willing to be thoroughly straightforward in our daily life.

I never force myself to be devout except when I feel so inspired, and never compose hymns of prayers unless I feel within me real and true devotion.

Prayer is futility when compared to belief.

The key to praying with power is to become the kind of persons who do not use God for our ends but are utterly devoted to being used for His ends.

Prayer is the hard-work business of Christianity, and it nets amazing results.

To keep God at the center of one's life requires frequent renewal of power through prayer.

If you train your children to anything, train them, at least, to a habit of prayer.

I pray every night before I go to sleep and every morning when I wake up.

Those prayers God likes best which come seething hot from the heart.

Real prayer comes not from gritting our teeth but from falling in love.

Prayer is the thermometer of grace.

Saying one's prayers isn't exactly the same thing as praying.

I am in the House of Mercy, and my heart is a place of prayer.

I'll tell you what's more important than all the commentaries in your library: prayer.