Quotes About Spirituality

Prayer is an earnest and familiar talking with God.

To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world.

Prayer - secret, fervent, believing prayer - lies at the root of all personal godliness.

If we do not abide in prayer, we will abide in temptation.

Prayer is the raising of the mind to God. We must always remember this. The actual words matter less.

Only a life of prayer and meditation will render a vessel ready for the Master's use.

When I wake up, I immediately pray. When I go to sleep, I pray. Honestly, a prayer every second, in every breath. I suggest the whole world to do it. Prayer is amazing.

We look upon prayer simply as a means of getting things for ourselves, but the biblical purpose of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.

Your harvest is not in view until your prayers rise up to heaven.

Virtues are formed by prayer. Prayer preserves temperance. Prayer suppresses anger. Prayer prevents emotions of pride and envy. Prayer draws into the soul the Holy Spirit, and raises man to Heaven.

He who avoids prayer is avoiding everything that is good.

There are more battles won through prayer than by any other means.

If we grow wiser and more learned in our intercourse with wise and learned persons, how much more will we gain in our inner life by communing with God in prayer.

While praying, listen to the words very carefully. When your heart is attentive, your entire being enters your prayer without your having to force it.

What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul.

We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.

Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.

Always respond to every impulse to pray. The impulse to pray may come when you are reading or when you are battling with a text. I would make an absolute law of this: always obey such an impulse.

No day should be lived unless it was begun with a prayer of thankfulness and an intercession for guidance.

For the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those that do evil.

We pray because our life comes from God and we yield it back in prayer. Prayer is a great antidote to the illusion that we are self-made.

Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.

Seek in reading and you will find in meditation; knock in prayer and it will be opened to you in contemplation.

Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.