Quotes About Spirituality

This mystical stream [contemplative prayer] is the Western bridge to Far Eastern spirituality.

Prayer is the chief thing that man may present unto God.

I first began to read religious books at school, and especially the Bible, when I was eleven years old; and almost immediately commenced a habit of secret prayer.

To pray is to let Jesus come into our hearts.

Just the same way I'd say a prayer before going onstage, taking that even further and using the drum to inspire people. And using that as a vehicle for the intention.

Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a steel spike.

I believe in prayer and in strong belief.

Prayer turns theology into experience.

No prayer!--No faith!--No Christ in the heart. Little prayer!--Little faith!--Little Christ in the heart.

If we rely on the Holy Spirit, we shall find that our prayers become more and more inarticulate; and when they are inarticulate, reverence grows deeper and deeper.

In saying my prayers, I discovered the voice of an innermost self, the raw nerve of my identity.

Prayer-though it is often draining, even an agony-is in the long term the greatest source of power that is possible.

We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.

FAITH is the element, the "chemical" which, when mixed with prayer, gives one direct communication with Infinite Intelligence.

Being a Christian doesn't mean I don't get stressed or upset when training doesn't go well. But even if I have those reactions, I think, 'I should pray about this.'

I still say the Lord's Prayer every day. It covers a lot of ground in our relation to the world.

A pair of hands clasped in earnest prayer is the best means we have this side of heaven to hang onto Jesus for dear life.

If you would have God hear you when you pray, you must hear him when he speaks.

I am bewildered by the magnificence of your beauty; and wish to see you with a hundred eyes . . . I am in the house of mercy, and my heart is a place of prayer.

The more we can give in our silent prayer, the more we can give in our active life.

Repeatedly place your pet opinions and prejudices before God. He will surprise you by showing you that the best of them need refining and some the purification of destruction.

Prayer among men is supposed a means to change the person to whom we pray; but prayer to God doth not change him, but fits us to receive the things prayed for.

All our blasphemies are only little prayers.

...the goodness of God is the highest object of prayer and it reaches down to our lowest need.