Quotes About Faith

If we ask of the saints how they achieved spiritual effectiveness, they are only able to reply that, insofar as they did it themselves, they did it by love and prayer.

Prayer does make a difference-a life-changing, mind-blowing, earth-rattling difference.

Remember that bodily exercise, when it is well ordered, as I have said, is also prayer by means of which you can please God our Lord.

Between the humble and contrite heart and the majesty of Heaven there are no barriers; the only password is prayer.

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.

One can believe intellectually in the efficacy of prayer and never do any praying.

Prayer is a powerful thing; for God has bound and tied himself thereunto.

The Living God alone can make us living men; the mighty God alone can make us mighty men; the loving God alone can make us consecrated men.

Prayer is the acid test of devotion.

All those football coaches who hold dressing-room prayers before a game should be forced to attend church once a week.

Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.

I must exchange whispers with God before shouts with the world.

Prayer in private results in boldness in public.

The mightier any is in the word, the more mighty he will be in prayer.

Prayer is an ordinance of God, that must continue with a soul so long as it is on this side glory.

There is enough sin in my best prayer to send the whole world to Hell.

The Cinderella of the church of today is the prayer meeting.

I am so busy now that if I did not spend three hours each day in prayer, I could not get through the day.

The Christian is not always praying; but within his bosom is a heaven-kindled love--fires of desire, fervent longings--which make him always ready to pray, and often engage him in prayer.

Prayer is the opening of the soul to God so that he can speak to us.

The life of prayer is so great and various there is something in it for everyone. It is like a garden which grows everything, from alpines to potatoes.

If your prayers haven't been answered, it doesn't mean they won't be answered. In fact, they may have already been answered, but just not in the way you wanted or expected them to be.

Look at Him while He is looking at you.

simply to ask a blessing upon one's circumstances, whatever they are, is somehow to improve them, and to tap some mysterious source of energy and joy.