Quotes About Spirituality

Some men's prayers need to be cut short at both ends and set on fire in the middle.

The world was made partly that there may be prayer; partly that our prayers might be answered.

Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.

I enjoy heaven already in my soul. My prayers are all converted into praises.

Prayer and action...can never be seen as contradictory or mutually exclusive. Prayer without action grows into powerless pietism, and action without prayer degenerates into questionable manipulation.

Prayer is first of all listening to God. It's openness. God is always speaking; he's always doing something.

Prayer is the exercise of drawing on the grace of God.

Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.

Prayer is, for me, like that - a state of being together with God. It's not usually triggered by liturgy or special needs. It's more like what the Bible instructs us to do: Pray without ceasing.

If you find your life of prayer to be always so short, and so easy, and so spiritual, as to be without cost and strain and sweat to you, you may depend upon it, you have not yet begun to pray.

Vocations are born in prayer and from prayer; and only in prayer can they persevere and bear fruit.

If we ask of the saints how they achieved spiritual effectiveness, they are only able to reply that, insofar as they did it themselves, they did it by love and prayer.

Prayer does make a difference-a life-changing, mind-blowing, earth-rattling difference.

Remember that bodily exercise, when it is well ordered, as I have said, is also prayer by means of which you can please God our Lord.

Between the humble and contrite heart and the majesty of Heaven there are no barriers; the only password is prayer.

One can believe intellectually in the efficacy of prayer and never do any praying.

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

Prayer is a powerful thing; for God has bound and tied himself thereunto.

Prayer is the acid test of devotion.

Prayer in private results in boldness in public.

The mightier any is in the word, the more mighty he will be in prayer.

Prayer is an ordinance of God, that must continue with a soul so long as it is on this side glory.

There is enough sin in my best prayer to send the whole world to Hell.

The Cinderella of the church of today is the prayer meeting.