Quotes about Devotion

But, oh! we are far more occupied with our work than we are with prayer. We believe more in speaking to men than we believe in speaking to God.

Yes, let us most joyfully say, ignorant and feeble though we be, 'Lord, teach us to pray.

Nothing will so test and stimulate the Christian life as the honest attempt to be an intercessor.

Lord, strengthen my heart that it may become holy and blameless. You are faithful; You will do it.

fix your desire on this one thing: to be filled with the Spirit of God.

His love is the basis of everything, and we must get on that as the solid foundation of our religious life and not grow up into that but grow up out of it.

We offer ourselves as learners; we would indeed be taught of Thee. 'Lord, teach us to pray.

We wish in a halfhearted way to be better than we are. But how few there are who truly ''hunger and thirst after righteousness''; how few who intensely long for a life of obedience and the continual consciousness of being pleasing to God.

Jesus Christ is able, by His divine grace, to prevent the power of self from ever asserting itself or gaining the upper hand; Jesus Christ is willing to become the life of the soul; Jesus Christ is willing to teach us so to follow Him, and to have heart and life set upon Him alone, that He shall ever and always be the light of our souls.

The power of prayer does not lie in the number or earnestness of the words you use, but in a living faith that God Himself accepts both you and your prayer into His loving heart.

May God write the Word in our hearts!

No man can expect to make progress in holiness who is not often and long alone with God.