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Quotes About Spirituality

Backsliding, generally first begins with neglect of private prayer.
~ J. C. Ryle
Pray as you can, not as you can't.
~ Johnny Appleseed
Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.
~ Margaret Mead
Christians, instead of arming themselves with swords, extend their hands in prayer.
~ Athanasius of Alexandria
The most important thing a born again Christian can do is to pray.
~ Chuck Smith
There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. ~William Shakespeare
~ William Shakespeare
Anything is a blessing which makes us pray.
~ Charles Spurgeon
The self-sufficient does not pray, the self-satisfied will not pray, the self-righteous cannot pray. No man is greater than his prayer life.
~ Leonard Ravenhill
The physical voice we use in prayer need not be great nor startling; even should we not lift up any great cry or shout, God will yet hear us.
~ Origen
We should seek not so much to pray but to become prayer.
~ Francis of Assisi
The Bible is a letter God has sent to us; prayer is a letter we send to him.
~ Matthew Henry
There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful, than that of a continual conversation with God; those only can comprehend it who practice and experience it.
~ Brother Lawrence
Prayer is not a painful effort to gain from God help in the varying needs of life. Prayer is the desire to possess God Himself
~ Sadhu Sundar Singh
Prayer is to the Christian what breath is to life, yet no duty of the Christian is so neglected.
~ R. C. Sproul
Prayer is a virtue that prevaileth against all temptations.
~ Bernard of Clairvaux
Humor is a prelude to faith and laughter is the beginning of prayer.
~ Reinhold Niebuhr
The more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer-the responses of our Father to our requests-our confidence in God's power spills over into other areas of our life.
~ Dallas Willard
Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.
~ Thomas Fuller
The Mass is the most perfect form of prayer.
~ Pope Paul VI
The world is holy. We are holy. All life is holy. Daily prayers are delivered on the lips of breaking waves, the whisperings of grasses, the shimmering of leaves.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
Prayer at its highest is a two-way conversation - and for me the most important part is listening to God's replies.
~ Frank Laubach
True prayer is a way of life, not just for use in cases of emergency.
~ Billy Graham
Worship does not consist in prayers and in external devotion, but in a life of kindness.
~ Emanuel Swedenborg
Answered prayer is the interchange of love between the Father and His child.
~ Andrew Murray