Quotes about Sincerity
Prayer is a serious thing. We may be taken at our words.
— DL Moody
Our true character comes out in the way we pray.
— Oswald Chambers
The prayer preceding all prayers is 'May it be the real I who speaks. May it be the real Thou that I speak to.'
— CS Lewis
Never believe that true prayer consists in mere babbling, reciting so many psalms and vigils, saying your beads while you allow your thoughts to roam.
— Johannes Tauler
We may sing our hymns and psalms, and offer prayers, but they will be an abomination to God, unless we are willing to be thoroughly straightforward in our daily life.
— DL Moody
Those prayers God likes best which come seething hot from the heart.
— Thomas Watson
It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.
— Henry Ward Beecher
We pray pious blether, our will is not in it, and then we say God does not answer; we never asked Him for anything. Asking means that our wills are in what we ask.
— Oswald Chambers
A wicked man in prayer may lift up his hands, but he cannot lift up his face.
— Thomas Watson
As for methods of prayer, all of them are good as long as they are sincere.
— Victor Hugo
Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie-I found that out.
— Mark Twain
We must lay before him what is in us not what ought to be in us.
— CS Lewis