Quotes About Devotion

Abiding fully means praying much.

It is by no haphazard chance that in every age men have risen early to pray. The first thing that marks decline in spiritual life is our relationship to the early morning.

Oh, will you pray? Stop now and pray, lest desire turn to feeling and feeling evaporate.

The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.

All our prayers are addressed in the handwriting of the heart.

Those that forget to attend God with their praises may perhaps be compelled to attend him with their prayers.

The key to prayer is simply praying.

To pray rightly, you must make God your hope, stay, and all. Right prayer sees nothing substantial or worth being concerned about except God.

To pray well one must pray much.

Prayer involves transformed passions. In prayer, real prayer, we begin to think God's thoughts after Him: to desire the things He desires, to love the things He loves, to will the things He wills.

Fasting and prayer are common injunctions in my religion.

We must resist wandering thoughts in prayer. Raising our hands reminds us that we need to raise up our minds to God, setting aside all irrelevant thoughts.

I have morning prayers and a nighttime reflection. I also read the Bible daily.

Prayer is the chief thing that man may present unto God.

I first began to read religious books at school, and especially the Bible, when I was eleven years old; and almost immediately commenced a habit of secret prayer.

To pray is to let Jesus come into our hearts.

No prayer!--No faith!--No Christ in the heart. Little prayer!--Little faith!--Little Christ in the heart.

If we rely on the Holy Spirit, we shall find that our prayers become more and more inarticulate; and when they are inarticulate, reverence grows deeper and deeper.

A pair of hands clasped in earnest prayer is the best means we have this side of heaven to hang onto Jesus for dear life.

I am bewildered by the magnificence of your beauty; and wish to see you with a hundred eyes . . . I am in the house of mercy, and my heart is a place of prayer.

If you can't pray as you want to, pray as you can. God knows what you mean.

Praying men must be strong in hope, and faith, and prayer.

Worship and intercession must go together, the one is impossible without the other. Intercession means that we rouse ourselves up to get the mind of Christ about the one for whom we pray.

Prayer, humility, and charity toward all are essential in the Christian life: they are the way to holiness.