Quotes About Spirituality

Prayer is like a great love. When you start dating the silence can be awkward, but as you grow to know each other you can sit in silence for hours and just being with each other is a great comfort.

Prayer unites the soul to God.

I prefer a kind of sweet, deep, rich prayer in which a person goes in and says, Take me down deep into the reason you gave me life. Take me down deep. It silences the chaos in me.

Oh God, I say not hear my prayers! I say: Blot with forgiving pen my sins away!

Pray for 'all men.' We usually pray more for things than we do for men. Our prayers should be thrown across their pathway as they rush in their downward course to a lost eternity.

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

I never pray on a golf course. Actually, the Lord answers my prayers everywhere except on the course.

In too many churches today, people don't see manifestations of God's power in answer to fervent praying. Instead, they hear arguments about theological issues that few people care about.

When the heart gets into prayer, every beat of the heart creates a miracle.

Not a lot of individuals get to refer to the Lord in their prayers as 'Dude', but he's doing a new thing with me.

Remember, Christ's scholars must study upon their knees.

intensity is a law of prayer. God is found by those who seek Him with all their heart. Wrestling prayer prevails. The fervent effectual prayer of the righteous is of great force.

May each family rediscover family prayer, which helps to bring about mutual understanding and forgiveness.

The Christian life is not limited to prayer, but requires an ongoing dedication and courage born of prayer.

Prayers and sacrifices are of no avail.

Prayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of containing the gift of God himself. Prayer begets faith, faith begets love, and love begets service on behalf of the poor.

Trying to describe what I do in prayer would be like telling the world how I make love to my wife.

My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer.

No prayers can be heard which do not come from a forgiving heart.

The firmament of the Bible is ablaze with answers to prayer.

That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth.

Just as you wouldn't leave the house without taking a shower, you shouldn't start the day without at least 10 minutes of sacred practice: prayer, meditation, inspirational reading.

I can say that paintings are prayers, they have to do with anything that makes you wish for more that what everyday life provides.

In vocal prayer we speak to God; in mental prayer he speaks to us. It is then that God pours Himself into us.