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Quotes About Spirituality

Prayer is powerful beyond limits when we turn to the Immaculata who is queen even of God's heart.
~ Maximilian Kolbe
You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed. Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge to Satan.
~ John Bunyan
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
~ John Bunyan
He prays best who does not know that he is praying.
~ Saint Anthony of Padua
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.
~ Meister Eckhart
There is a mighty lot of difference between saying prayers and praying.
~ John G. Lake
A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized prayer is listening.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
Do you know what prayer is? It is not begging God for this and that. The first thing we have to do is to get you beggars to quit begging until a little faith moves in your souls.
~ John G. Lake
Complaints are prayers to the devil.
~ Bob Marley
Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him.
~ James Hudson Taylor
Nothing tends more to cement the hearts of Christians than praying together. Never do they love one another so well as when they witness the outpouring of each other's hearts in prayer.
~ Charles Grandison Finney
We must pray without ceasing, in every occurrence and employment of our lives - that prayer which is rather a habit of lifting up the heart to God as in a constant communication with Him.
~ Elizabeth Ann Seton
The truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it is burned into my heart by prayer.
~ John Bunyan
Healing is not always obtained by saying a prayer. It is obtained by obeying God
~ John G. Lake
He who labors as he prays lifts his heart to God with his hands.
~ Bernard of Clairvaux
Prayer is climbing up into the heart of God.
~ Martin Luther
The blood of heroes is closer to the Lord than the ink of scholars and the prayers of the pious.
~ Julius Evola
Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.
~ John Bunyan
Let every step you take upon the earth be as a prayer.
~ Black Elk
To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Give yourself to prayer, to reading and meditation on divine truths: strive to penetrate to the bottom of them and never be content with a superficial knowledge.
~ David Brainerd
More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.
~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Prevailing prayer is that which secures an answer. Saying prayers is not offering prevailing prayer. The prevalence of prayer does not depend so much on quantity as on quality.
~ Charles Grandison Finney