Quotes About Devotion

The more you praise, the more vigor you will have for prayer; and the more you pray, the more matter you will have for praise.

If, at the time when the mind is praying it is distracted by any extraneous thought or worry about anything, then this prayer is not called pure.

A life of prayer is a life whose litanies are ever fresh acts of self-devoting love.

Christians fight best on their knees. Whatever good may be done is done and brought about by prayer.

God's pleasure is at the end of our prayers.

The Lord speaks to us through the Scriptures and in our prayer. Let us learn to keep silence before him, as we meditate upon the Gospel.

To pray is to desire; but it is to desire what God would have us desire.

Give us an intense distaste for things that displease You and a renewed pleasure in things that bring You honor and magnify Your truth.

There must be fired affections before our prayers will go up.

If by losing the spirit of prayer, you mean losing the heavenly sensations of deep devotion, I am afraid that does not matter a scrap.

When doing archana (daily prayers) as a group, one person should chant the mantra and the others should repeat it. Mantras should be chanted slowly, clearly and with devotion.

Prayer is an effort of will.

Cold prayers always freeze before they reach heaven .

If I call not thee in my prayers, if I keep not thee in my heart, thy love for me still waits for my love.

You may as soon find a living man who does not breathe, as a living Christian who does not pray.

Prayer will become effective when we stop using it as a substitute for obedience.

Prayer should be soundless words coming forth from the center of your heart filled with love.

It is a tremendously hard thing to pray aright, yea, it is verily the science of all sciences.

What can be more excellent than prayer; what is more profitable to our life; what sweeter to our souls; what more sublime, in the course of our whole life, than the practice of prayer!

Use "breath prayers" throughout the day, as many Christians have done for centuries. You choose a brief sentence or a simple phrase that can be repeated to Jesus in one breath: "You are with me."

It is only in times of great and grievous dullness that the believer regards prayer as a duty, and not as a privilege.

Music is a form of prayer.

Worship seals all prayers at the front and at the back. Always pray with praise beginning and praise ending.

There are many upright and faithful who live all the commandments and whose lives and prayers keep the world from destruction.