Quotes About Devotion

The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.

Prayer is not just getting ready for Christian service. Prayer is Christian service.

I have to hurry all day to get time to pray.

He who ceases to pray ceases to prosper.

The first purpose of prayer is to know God.

Without immersion in God's words, our prayers may not be merely limited and shallow but also untethered from reality.

I always carry prayer cards to St. Jude and St. Martha with me.

Prayer is faith passing into action.

Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .

Cease to pray and thou will begin to sin. Prayer is not only a means to prevail for mercy but also to prevent sin.

Prayer without heart is a waste to time.

God has special confidences for each soul. Indeed, it would seem as though the deepest truths came only in moments of profound devotional silence and contemplation.

What signifies the sound of words in prayer without the affection of the heart, and a sedulous application of the proper means that may naturally lead us to such an end?

Prayer is nothing but the promise reversed, or God's Word formed into an argument, and retorted by faith upon God again.

Frequently the burden or concern in the spirit is for prayer.

Prayer is not a pious decoration of life but the breath of human existence.

Prayer is like money - it has no smell.

If the spiritual life be healthy, under the full power of the Holy Spirit, praying without ceasing will be natural.

Labor, you know, is prayer.

Blessed be God, I not only begin praying when I kneel down, but I do not leave off praying when I rise up.

A prayer less soul is a Christ less soul.

The prayer of faith is the only kind that is real prayer, and it is trust in God with full acknowledgment of God's power and love.

Most people find it extremely difficult - if not impossible - to focus in prayer.

Sometimes I'm asked to list the most important steps in preparing for an evangelistic mission, and my reply is always the same: prayer... prayer... prayer.