Quotes about Devotion
The prayer life does not consist of perpetual repetition of petitions. The prayer life consists of life that is always upward and onward and Godward.
— G Campbell Morgan
Fervent prayer keeps your true identity in focus.
— Priscilla Shirer
Prayer is not getting things from God. That is a most initial stage; prayer is getting into perfect communion with God: I tell Him what I know He knows in order that I may get to know it as He does.
— Oswald Chambers
Prayer meetings are the throbbing machinery of the church.
— Charles Spurgeon
The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.
— St. Augustine
Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.
— JC Ryle
Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you.
— E Stanley Jones
Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God
— Mother Teresa
Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
— Teresa of Avila
A man who prays much in private will make short prayers in public.
— DL Moody
Fasting detaches you from this world. Prayer reattaches you to the next world.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Whether or not our prayer is heard depends not on the number of our words, but on the fervor of our souls.
— St. John Chrysostom