Quotes About Spirituality

Souls of prayer are souls of great silence

Never believe that true prayer consists in mere babbling, reciting so many psalms and vigils, saying your beads while you allow your thoughts to roam.

Prayer and a holy life are one. They mutually act and react. Neither can survive alone. The absence of the one is the absence of the other.

Their sighing, canting, grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces.

By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way.

We can do nothing without prayer.

Those who know God the best are the richest and most powerful in prayer. Little acquaintance with God, and strangeness and coldness to Him, make prayer a rare and feeble thing.

Centering prayer is a training in letting go.

Prayer is speaking to God. Meditation is listening to God. Trust tranquility.

Prayer gives us relief from the melancholy burden of self-absorption .

A prayer couched in the words of the soul, is far more powerful than any ritual.

The prayer that is faithless is fruitless.

God warms his hands at man's heart when he prays.

God's chief gift to those who seek him is Himself.

If we seem to get no good by attempting to draw near to Him, we may be sure we will get none by keeping away from Him.

Prayer is the evidence that I am spiritually concentrated on God.

Allow yourself to be possessed by God by receiving Jesus, and you will never be possessed by anything else.

Prayer unfolds in the stillness of the soul.

God sees us in secret, therefore, let, us seek his face in secret. Though heaven be God's palace, yet it is not his prison.

Prayer is asking; the answer to prayer is receiving.

I never force myself to be devout except when I feel so inspired, and never compose hymns of prayers unless I feel within me real and true devotion.

Prayer is futility when compared to belief.

The power of prayer and faith can heal and bring happiness. The real tragedy is that the people that are helped by this don't realize that this power is really coming from within.

When God wants to have mercy on someone, He inspires someone else to pray for him, and He helps in this prayer.