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Quotes About Spirituality

Art and prayer are the only decent ejaculations of the soul.
~ Joris-Karl Huysmans, Là-Bas
Prayer, even more than eating or sleeping, is not a luxury but a necessity, and we are only fully human when we remember this and arrange our life accordingly.
~ Sheila Cassidy
The more deeply we grow into the psalms and the more often we pray them as our own, the more simple and rich will our prayer become.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Whether we like it or not, asking is the rule of the Kingdom. If you may have everything by asking in His Name, and nothing without asking, I beg you to see how absolutely vital prayer is.
~ Charles Spurgeon
We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense.
~ Oswald Chambers
The purpose of prayer is not to change God's mind, which always knows your wholeness and your deservingness. The purpose of prayer is to change your mind so you can see through the eyes of God.
~ Alan Cohen
The sky is my prayer, the birds are my prayer, the wind in the trees is my prayer, for God is all in all.
~ Thomas Merton
It is not surprising that prayer malfunctions when we try to make it a domestic intercom to call upstairs for more comforts in the den.
~ John Piper
I assure you, where prayer focuses power falls.
~ Howard G. Hendricks
What does it matter how long I pray, so long as my prayers are answered?
~ Sitting Bull
When we become too glib in prayer we are most surely talking to ourselves.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
Waiting prayer, or waiting on the Lord, is the silent surrendering of the soul to God. It is wordless worship. It is seeking God not from without but from within. It is to seek God in your heart.
~ Jaeson Ma
Every nerve in my body is so vacant and numb/I can't even remember what it was I came here to get away from/Don't even hear a murmur of a prayer/It's not dark yet, but it's getting there.
~ Bob Dylan
A man is powerful on his knees.
~ Corrie Ten Boom
Prayer in secret is life finding expression in the realized Presence of God our Father.
~ Samuel Chadwick
Prayer shouldn't be casual or sporadic, dictated only by the needs of the moment. Prayer should be as much a part of our lives as breathing.
~ Billy Graham
There is nothing that torments Satan more than the sight of a faithful in prayer.
~ Nadeem Aslam
If you ever feel distant, never mistake who has drifted away. Prayer will close this gap.
~ Tad R. Callister
In souls filled with love, the desire to please God is continual prayer.
~ John Wesley
Prayer is a new, gracious, lasting will of the soul united and fast-bound to the will of God by the precious and mysterious working of the Holy Ghost.
~ Julian of Norwich
Prayer is not just something on our to-do list; it's the breath of our soul.
~ Kimberly Hahn
All who call on God in true faith...will certainly be heard.
~ Martin Luther
When you are unhappy, you are just coming in touch with your own boundaries. Turn the whole situation into a prayer & you will walk through it.
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
I have so much to do that I spend several hours in prayer before I am able to do it.
~ John Wesley