Quotes about Devotion
True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is a spiritual commerce with the Creator of heaven and earth.
- Charles Spurgeon
The fewer the words the better the prayer.
- Martin Luther
Prayer does not change God but it changes him who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Keep us Lord so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.
- John Donne
Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is to life.
- Jonathan Edwards
One who prays ceaselessly is one who combines prayer with work and work with prayer.
- Origen
From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints good Lord deliver us.
- Teresa of Avila
Unless I had the spirit of prayer I could do nothing.
- Charles Finney
Watch your motive before God have no other motive in prayer than to know Him.
- Oswald Chambers
True prayer brings a person's will into accordance with God's will not the other way around.
- Anonymous
Let it be your business every day in the secrecy of the inner chamber to meet the holy God. You will be repaid for the trouble it may cost you. The reward will be sure and rich.
- Andrew Murray
Faith is the fountain of prayer and prayer should be nothing else but faith exercised.
- Thomas Manton