Quotes About Sincerity

It is necessary to rouse the heart to pray, otherwise it will become quite dry. The attributes of prayer must be: love of God, sincerity, and simplicity.

True prayer is measured by weight, not by length

In the same way that a small child cannot draw a bad picture so a child of God cannot offer a bad prayer.

Repentance and faith are distasteful to the unregenerate; they would sooner repeat a thousand formal prayers than shed a solitary tear of true repentance.

The greater your cares, the more genuine your prayers

The efficacy of a prayer depends not on the words but on the sincerity of intention.

When we become too glib in prayer we are most surely talking to ourselves.

Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.

Our true character comes out in the way we pray.

The prayer that prevails is not the work of lips and fingertips. It is the cry of a broken heart and the travail of a stricken soul.

Prayer is the acid test of devotion.

It is much easier for me to imagine a praying murderer, a praying prostitute, than a vain person praying. Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.

The prayer preceding all prayers is 'May it be the real I who speaks. May it be the real Thou that I speak to.'

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.

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.

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.

It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.

The key to prayer is simply praying.

We pray pious blether, our will is not in it, and then we say God does not answer; we never asked Him for anything. Asking means that our wills are in what we ask.

A wicked man in prayer may lift up his hands, but he cannot lift up his face.

As for methods of prayer, all of them are good as long as they are sincere.

Prayer without heart is a waste to time.