Quotes about Spirituality
Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of Himself.
— Mother Teresa
Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.
— Laurence Sterne
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
Prayer joined to sacrifice constitutes the most powerful force in human history.
— Pope John Paul II
I've practiced centering prayer. I've contemplatively prayed. I've prayed liturgically... I've benefited from each, and I still do. In ways you'll see, elements of each style are still with me.
— Larry Crabb
No prayer fully expresses our faith.
— Oscar Romero
Prayer is always in danger of degenerating into a glorified gold rush. How to get things from God occupies most [books].
— AW Tozer
Prayer is the act of seeing reality from God's point of view.
— Philip Yancey
Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient's belief.
— Hippocrates
All earth-born hopes with time must pass away; prayer grasps eternal things; pray, always pray.
— AB Simpson
Prayers out of, very often, not the most religious part of me, but the most anxious part of me, the most desperately loving, fearing part of me.
— Frederick Buechner
Begin your day with prayer, and make it so soulful that it may remain with you until the evening.
— Mahatma Gandhi