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Quotes About Spirituality

Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.
~ Martin Luther
Prayer is the conduit through which power from heaven is brought to earth.
~ Ole Hallesby
We regard prayer no longer as a duty which must be performed, but rather as a privilege which is to be enjoyed, a rare delight that is always revealing some new beauty.
~ Edward McKendree Bounds
A church that likes power likes prayer.
~ Jacob Peterson
My desk drawer is filled with all kinds of prayers.
~ Geraldine Ferraro
By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.
~ Saint Francis de Sales
Being a person of prayer is the most important calling in one's life.
~ Mike Bickle
He prayeth best who loveth best.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Prayer immediately turns us into something greater than ourselves.
~ Timothy M. Dolan
Prayer doesn't just change things - it changes us. If we are diligent in seeking God, slowly and surely we become better people.
~ Joyce Meyer
I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.
~ Marianne Williamson
The third petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone's will be done but their own.
~ Aldous Huxley
...Prayer is not always petition, sometimes it is just communion. It is the exquisite ministry of friendship.
~ John Henry Jowett
Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still.
~ Edward McKendree Bounds
In the life of the Indian there is only one inevitable duty-the duty of prayer-the daily recognition of the Unseen and Eternal. Our daily devotions were more necessary to us than daily food.
~ Charles Alexander Eastman
The most important lesson we can learn is how to pray. Prayers do not die, prayers live before God, and God's heart is set on them.
~ Edward McKendree Bounds
The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers heard throughout nature.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Brotherhood doesn't come in a package. It is not a commodity to be taken down from the shelf with one hand - it is an accomplishment of soul-searching, prayer and perseverance.
~ Oveta Culp Hobby
Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.
~ Teresa of Avila
Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
I would rather teach one man to pray than ten men to preach.
~ Charles Spurgeon
All vital praying makes a drain on a man's vitality. True intercession is a sacrifice, a bleeding sacrifice.
~ John Henry Jowett
An hour of study, for the modern apostle, is an hour of prayer.
~ Josemaria Escriva
Not to employ prayer with my patients was the equivalent of deliberately withholding a potent drug or surgical procedure.
~ Larry Dossey