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Quotes About Spirituality

One great effect of prayer is that it enables the soul to command the body. By obedience I make my body submissive to my soul but prayer puts my soul in command of my body.
~ Oswald Chambers
True prayer always receives what it asks for-or something better.
~ Bryon Edwards
Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality and the essential nature of prayer is faith.
~ Oswald Chambers
Prayer is the voice of faith.
~ William Van Home
Some churches make intercessory prayer part of their weekly schedule. If that's not the case at your church, find another person in the faith to intercede with or go before God on your own.
~ Monica Johnson
A saint is to put forth his faith in prayer and afterwards follow his prayer with faith.
~ Vavasor Powell
Prayers are heard in heaven very much in proportion to your faith. Little faith will get very great mercies but great faith still greater.
~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Faith is the fountain of prayer and prayer should be nothing else but faith exercised.
~ Thomas Manton
Without faith it is impossible to please God for he that cometh to God must believe that He is.
~ Bible
Essentially prayer is based on a relationship. We don't converse freely with someone we don't know. We bare our souls and disclose our hidden secrets only to someone we trust.
~ Dean Register
I who still pray at morning and at eve Thrice in my life perhaps have truly prayed Thrice stirred below conscious self Have felt that perfect disenthrallment which is God.
~ James Russell Lowell
Prayer serves as an edge and border to preserve the web of life from unraveling.
~ Robert Hall
Prayer does not mean simply to pour out one's heart. It means rather to find the way to God and to speak with him whether the heart is full or empty.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Prayer is not an exercise it is the life.
~ Oswald Chambers
Prayer is our most formidable weapon the thing which makes all else we do efficient.
~ E. M. Bounds
Prayer is a cry of distress a demand for help a hymn of love.
~ Dr. Alexis Carrel
Prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned God-ward.
~ Phillips Brooks
Prayer is the pillow of religion.
~ Arab proverb
Prayer is God's answer to our poverty not a power we exercise to obtain an answer.
~ Oswald Chambers
Do not neglect secret prayer, for it is the soul of religion.
~ Ellen G. White
The prayers of the Christian are secret but their effect cannot be hidden.
~ Howard Chandler Robbins
Man is the only creature which rises by bowing for he finds elevation in his subjection to his Maker.
~ Anonymous
Through prayer, fasting, and studying, God will answer.
~ Monica Johnson
The deepest wishes of the heart find expression in secret prayer.
~ George E. Rees