Quotes about Spirituality
All my weak days have a common cause - I have neglected communion with God through my neglect of the Scriptures & prayer. When will I learn?
— Paul Washer
I'd rather be able to pray than to be a great preacher; Jesus Christ never taught his disciples how to preach, but only how to pray.
— DL Moody
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
— Soren Kierkegaard
You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed. Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge to Satan.
— John Bunyan
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
— John Bunyan
He prays best who does not know that he is praying.
— St. Anthony of Padua
A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized prayer is listening.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him.
— Hudson Taylor
Our prayers may be awkward. Our attempts may be feeble. But since the power of prayer is in the One who hears it and not in the one who says it, our prayers do make a difference.
— Max Lucado
Nothing tends more to cement the hearts of Christians than praying together. Never do they love one another so well as when they witness the outpouring of each other's hearts in prayer.
— Charles Finney
The truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it is burned into my heart by prayer.
— John Bunyan