Quotes About Spirituality

Those who do not believe do not pray. This is a good functional definition of faith. Faith prays, unbelief does not.

Who one believes God to be is most accurately revealed not in any credo but in the way one speaks to God when no one else is listening.

We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another.

She entered a state where prayer and poetry became one and the everyday world seemed full of holiness and significance.

Prayer is the chief exercise of faith.

When the fire of prayer goes out, the barrenness of busyness takes over.

He who prays most receives most.

A dynamic praying church must be built from the inside out, employing all four levels of prayer: the secret closet, the family altar, small group praying and finally, the congregational setting.

The reason why we obtain no more in prayer is because we expect no more. God usually answers us according to our own hearts.

I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a religious vocation.

Prayer is beyond any question the highest activity of the human soul. Man is at his greatest and highest when upon his knees he comes face to face with God.

The primary purpose of prayer is not to get something, but to know Someone.

I feel that very frequently prayer is made a refuge to dodge the action of faith.

Prayer is the oxygen of the soul.

Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer.

The best prayer I ever prayed had enough sin to damn the whole world.

The birth of the church was during a prayer meeting, not preaching, not singing, but prayer.

Prayer is the life of the soul.

It is the opener of the heart of God, and a means by which the soul, though empty, is filled.

Prayer is preoccupation with our needs. Praise is preoccupation with our blessings. Worship is preoccupation with GOD Himself.

God speaks in the silence of the heart, and we listen. And then we speak to God from the fullness of our heart, and God listens. And this listening and this speaking is what prayer is meant to be.

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

No man is greater than his prayer life.

If I fail to spend two hours in prayer each morning, the devil gets the victory through the day. I have so much business I cannot get on without spending three hours daily in prayer.