Quotes About Spirituality

The main lesson about prayer is just this: Do it! Do it! Do it! You want to be taught to pray? My answer is: pray.

Praying is learned by praying.

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.

Some people think that prayer just means asking for things and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for they think the whole thing is a fraud.

Poverty chastity and obedience are extremely difficult. But there are always the graces if you will pray for them.

Whenever the insistence is on the point that God answers prayer we are off the track. The meaning of prayer is that we get hold of God not of the answer.

When I pray coincidences happen and when I don't they don't.

Our understanding of God is the answer to prayer getting things from God is God's indulgence of us. When God stops giving us things He brings us into the place where we can begin to understand Him.

You say "But He has not answered." He has He is so near to you that His silence is the answer. His silence is big with terrific meaning that you cannot understand yet but presently you will.

God's silences are His answers. If we only take as answers those that are visible to our senses we are in a very elementary condition of grace.

The great tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer but unoffered prayer.

If we be empty and poor it is not because God's hand is straitened but ours is not opened.

Our prayers are often filled with selfish "wants" God always answers with what we need.

Beyond our utmost wants His love and power can bless To praying souls he always grants More than they can express.

Let God's grace be the mosque, and devotion the prayer mat. Let the Quran be the good conduct.

Those who trade with heaven by prayer grow rich by quick returns.

When you go to your knees God will help you stand up to anything.

Amazing things start happening when we start praying!

The man who prays grows and the muscles of the soul swell from this whipcord to iron bands.

Prayer opens our eyes that we may see ourselves and others as God sees us.

The essence of prayer even of a mystical experience is the way we are altered to see everything from its life-filled dimension.

We impoverish God in our minds when we say there must be answers to our prayers on the material plane the biggest answers to our prayers are in the realm of the unseen.

The greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect understanding with God and that alters my view of actual things.

Let it be your business every day in the secrecy of the inner chamber to meet the holy God. You will be repaid for the trouble it may cost you. The reward will be sure and rich.