Quotes about Heart
True prayer is measured by weight, not by length
- Charles Spurgeon
Repentance and faith are distasteful to the unregenerate; they would sooner repeat a thousand formal prayers than shed a solitary tear of true repentance.
- Charles Spurgeon
Prayer is the hand of faith on the door knob of your heart, inviting Jesus to enter.
- Max Lucado
The richness of God's Word ought to determine our prayer, not the poverty of our heart.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Prayer delights God's ear; it melts His heart; and opens His hand. God cannot deny a praying soul.
- Thomas Watson
Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.
- Teresa of Avila
Prayer is the song of the heart. It reaches the ear of God even if it is mingled with the cry and the tumult of a thousand men.
- Khalil Gibran
Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of Himself.
- Mother Teresa
The heart which has no agenda but God's is the heart at leisure from itself. Its emptiness is filled with the Love of God. Its solitude can be turned into prayer.
- Elisabeth Elliot
A little lifting of the heart suffices; a little remembrance of God, one act of inward worship are prayers which, however short, are nevertheless acceptable to God.
- Brother Lawrence
Prayer continues in the desire of the heart, though the understanding be employed on outward things.
- John Wesley
Prayer need not be an activity we engage in for only an hour each morning. Rather, let us live in the atmosphere of prayer, our hearts continually being lifted up in prayer to Him.
- KP Yohannan