Quotes About Spirituality

God's first line of defense - and offense - for every situation is prayer.

When you say a prayer, He (The Holy Spirit) is in every word of it, and like a Holy Fire, penetrates each word.

When our whole life is one faith, hope, love, prayer and silence, a consecrated life always bound up in the Eucharist, then the 'urge' towards God springs.

Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.

I would like to explain that I consider prayer above all an act of gratitude for existence.

I began to see my life and each breath I am given as a living prayer to God and a way to pray for others for our world.

Jesus' pattern prayer, which is both crutch, road, and walking lesson for the spiritually lame like ourselves, tells us to start with God: for God matters infinitely more than we do.

Prayer is asking for guidance. Meditation is listening to it.

Prayer offered without faith by a person that doesn't truly believe God exists will not be effective. Sin in our lives that we refuse to confess will also render our prayers ineffective.

Purity is the fruit of prayer.

The Rosary is a school of Prayer. The Rosary is a school of Faith.

Through prayer, our free agency is used to admit and confess our deep desire to have God's help in our lives.

Love and prayer are intimately related.

A prayer may chance to rise From one whose heart lives in the grace of God. A prayer from any other is unheeded.

Mankind have such a deep stake in inward illumination, that there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in defence of his life of thought and prayer.

Not thinking critically, I assumed that the successful prayers were proof that God answers prayer while the failures were proof that there was something wrong with me.

Whole prayer is nothing but love.

Saying a prayer won't make you a Christian. Placing your faith in Christ as your savior makes you a Christian.

The gift of prayer is not always at our command.

God knows that sometimes we lack words to express our feelings, heart-cry, thoughts. And so within the Bible he includes people's prayers as models to help our own.

As for methods of prayer, all of them are good as long as they are sincere.

Prayer is simply talking to God like a friend and should be the easiest thing we do each day.

We are to be shut out from men, and shut in with God.

Prayer is - listening for the still small voice of God. Listening with the "ear of our hearts."