Quotes About Spirituality

Prayers not felt by us are seldom heard by God.

Many pray with their lips for that for which their hearts have no desire.

God may turn his ears from prattling prayers, or preaching prayers, but never from penitent, believing prayers.

God's ear lies close to the believer's lip.

Do not pray by heart, but with the heart.

Our prayers must mean something to us if they are to mean anything to God.

God eagerly awaits the chance to bless the person whose heart is turned toward Him.

In prayer the lips ne'er act the winning part, without the sweet concurrence of the heart.

Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere, there will be new feeling and new meaning in it which will give you fresh courage, and you will understand that prayer is an education.

When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart.

He offered a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed kneeling and praying at the bottom of the sea.

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

She heard the snuffle of hypocrisy in her prayer. She had to cease to pray.

None can pray well but he that lives well.

Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: and see if there be any wicked way in me.

We cannot talk to God strongly when we have not lived for God strongly. The closet cannot be made holy to God when the life has not been holy to God.

Be not hot in prayer and cold in praise.

Prayer is the soul's sincere desire.

Prayer is something deeper than words. It is present in the soul before it has been formulated in words. And it abides in the soul after the last words of prayer have passed over our lips.

Our groanings, which cannot be uttered, rise to Him and tell Him better than words how dependent we are upon Him.

Productive prayer requires earnestness, not eloquence.

Prayer is a fine, delicate instrument. To use it right is a great art, a holy art. There is perhaps no greater art than the art of prayer. Yet the least gifted, the uneducated and the poor can cultivate the holy art of prayer.

Many words do not a good prayer make; what counts is the heartfelt desire to commune with God, and the faith to back it up.

Short prayers pierceth Heaven.