Quotes about Devotion
Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.
- JC Ryle
Let this be thy whole endeavor, this thy prayer, this thy desire,-that thou mayest be stripped of all selfishness, and with entire simplicity follow Jesus only.
- Thomas a Kempis
I am very defective in all duties... In prayer I wander and am formal... I soon tire; devotion languishes; and I do not walk with God.
- William Carey
The true believer can no more live without prayer, than without food day by day.
- George Whitefield
We cannot ask in behalf of Christ what Christ would not ask Himself if He were praying.
- AB Simpson
There should be a parallel between our supplications and our thanksgivings. We ought not to leap in prayer, and limp in praise.
- Charles Spurgeon
Our Lord is the ground from whom our prayer grows and in his love and grace he himself gives us our prayers.
- Julian of Norwich
Brother, if you would enter that Province, you must go forward on your knees.
- Hudson Taylor
Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
- Teresa of Avila
with all prayer (Eph. 6:18)" All sorts of prayer- public, private, mental, vocal. Do not be diligent in one kind of prayer and negligent in others... let us use all.
- John Wesley
Prayer is no substitute for work; equally true is it that work is no substitute for prayer.
- Leonard Ravenhill
Prayer is not the answer. God is the answer. Prayer is the vehicle by which we reach God.
- Greg Laurie