Quotes About Spirituality

The goal of prayer is the ear of God.

Without loving and caring for others, most of us stand little chance of communing with God/the Divine Wisdom, no matter how many years we may spend in silent prayer.

The word of God is the food by which prayer is nourished and made strong.

Unless we fix certain hours in the day for prayer, it easily slips from our memory.

The mystery of the Cross, a mystery of love, can only be understood in prayer. Pray and weep, kneeling before the Cross.

The best style of prayer is that which cannot be called anything else but a cry.

The reason "other churches" don't grow: "Jim, the truth is, I couldn't have a real prayer meeting in my church. I'd be embarrassed at the smallness of the crowd..."

It is necessary to rouse the heart to pray, otherwise it will become quite dry. The attributes of prayer must be: love of God, sincerity, and simplicity.

True prayer is measured by weight, not by length

Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element in prayer.

Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work.

Repentance and faith are distasteful to the unregenerate; they would sooner repeat a thousand formal prayers than shed a solitary tear of true repentance.

The men who have done the most for God in this world have been early on their knees.

God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. They outlive the lives of those who uttered them.

As we pour out our bitterness, God pours in his peace.

A holy life does not live in the closet, but it cannot live without the closet.

We offer our prayers in weakness but they ascend in power because of the blood of Jesus.

I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.

Every step in the progress of missions is directly traceable to prayer.

The most important of your affairs in my view is prayer; whoever prays regularly has protected his faith, but whoever neglects it, is bound to be more negligent in other issues of faith.

In books we seek God; in prayer we find him. Prayer is the key which opens God's heart.

I prayed fifteen years for the conversion of my oldest brother. When he seemed to be getting further and further away from any hope of conversion, I prayed on.

If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power.

The best weapons of a Jew are his prayers.