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Quotes About Spirituality

It is by no haphazard chance that in every age men have risen early to pray. The first thing that marks decline in spiritual life is our relationship to the early morning.
~ Oswald Chambers
Oh, will you pray? Stop now and pray, lest desire turn to feeling and feeling evaporate.
~ Amy Carmichael
In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one.
~ W. H. Auden
The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.
~ Arthur Wellesley
They who have steeped their soul in prayer can every anguish calmly bear.
~ Richard M. Milnes
I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention.
~ Mary Oliver
Stories,' the green-eyed Sigrid said, unperturbed, 'are like prayers. It does not matter when you begin, or when you end, only that you bend a knee and say the words.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
All our prayers are addressed in the handwriting of the heart.
~ Karl G. Maeser
Prayer is not so much the means whereby God's will is bent to man's desires, as it is that whereby man's will is bent to God's desires.
~ Charles Bent
They tell me, Lord, that when I seem To be in speech with you. Since but one voice is heard, it
~ C. S. Lewis
Prayer is more than words. It's listening, seeing and feeling.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Those that forget to attend God with their praises may perhaps be compelled to attend him with their prayers.
~ Matthew Henry
The key to prayer is simply praying.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
For me writing has always felt like praying even when I wasn't writing prayers.
~ Marilynne Robinson
We ought not speak too long about God with our minds before we turn and speak to God from our heart. We must stir a lot of prayer into the stew of our theology.
~ John Piper
Prayer is the bridge over which the Kingdom of God comes to the earth.
~ Rich Nathan
To pray well one must pray much.
~ Georgia Harkness
Some have been to the mountain. I have been to my knees by the side of my bed.
~ Robert Breault
Fasting and prayer are common injunctions in my religion.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I do believe in the power of prayer.
~ Geraldine Ferraro
What are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend?
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Blessed is the mind which, during prayer, is insensible to all things.
~ Nilus of Sinai
I have morning prayers and a nighttime reflection. I also read the Bible daily.
~ Roma Downey
Faith furnishes prayer with wings, without which it cannot soar to Heaven.
~ John Climacus