Quotes About Spirituality

As Spinoza, or someone very much like him, once said . . .

Any ritual is an opportunity for transformation.

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved . . . the ones who never yawn and say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.

There may be those on earth who dress better or eat better, but those who enjoy the peace of God sleep better.

The goal of prayer is the ear of God, a goal that can only be reached by patient and continued and continuous waiting upon Him, pouring out our heart to Him and permitting Him to speak to us. Only by so doing can we expect to know Him, and as we come to know Him better we shall spend more time in His presence and find that presence a constant and ever-increasing delight.

It is not so true that "prayer changes things" as that prayer changes me and I change things. God has so constituted things that prayer on the basis of Redemption alters the way in which a man looks at things. Prayer is not a question of altering things externally, but of working wonders in a man's disposition.

The only way to pray is to pray, and the way to pray well is to pray much.

If we are willing to spend hours on end to learn to play the piano, operate a computer, or fly an airplane, it is sheer nonsense for us to imagine that we can learn the high art of getting guidance through communion with the Lord without being willing to set aside time for it.

Do I want to pray or only to think about my human problems? Do I want to pray or simply kneel there contemplating my sorrow? Do I want to direct my prayer toward God or let it direct itself towards me?

O thou, by whom we come to God, The Life, the Truth, the Way, The path of prayer Thyself hast trod- Lord teach us how to pray.

Dealing in generalities is the death of prayer.

Don't try to reach God with your understanding; that is impossible. Reach him in love; that is possible.

The right way to pray, then, is any way that allows us to communicate with God.

He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.

Incense is prayer That drives no bargain. Child, learn from incense How best to pray.

When you cannot pray as you would, pray as you can.

Pray till you pray.

A day without prayer is a boast against God.

I care not what black spiritual crisis we may come through or what delightful spiritual Canaan we may enter, no blessing of the Christian life becomes continually possessed unless we are men and women of regular, daily, unhurried, secret lingerings in prayer.

In the morning, prayer is the key that opens to us the treasures of God's mercies and blessings; in the evening, it is the key that shuts us up under His protection and safeguard.

Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

We read of preaching the Word out of season, but we do not read of praying out of season, for that is never out of season.

Let prayer be the key of the morning and the bolt at night.

Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray.