Quotes about Devotion
My prayer is that people will see that following Jesus costs you everything you are and everything you have. And my prayer is that people will see that Jesus is worth it.
- David Platt
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