Quotes about Spirituality

When the hammer of logic and the fire of human zeal fail to open the stony heart, unction will succeed.

For this sin-hungry age we need a prayer-hungry Church.

Prayer makes the soul tender.

The ugly fact is that altar fires are either out or burning very low. The prayer meeting is dead or dying. By our attitude to prayer we tell God that what was begun in the Spirit we can finish in the flesh. What church ever asks its candidating ministers what time they spend in prayer? Yet ministers who do not spend two hours a day in prayer are not worth a dime a dozen, degrees or no degrees.

There can be no revival when Mr. Amen and Mr. Wet-Eyes are not found in the audience. —CHARLES G. FINNEY

was exceptional in suffering, which was often by the choice of others, but exceptional in prayer, too, which was by his own choice. If more were strong in prayer, more would be suited to suffer. Prayer develops bone as well as groan, sinew as well as saintliness, fortitude as well as fire.

An experience of God that cost nothing, does nothing, and is worth nothing.

He who would teach the people to pray must first himself be given to prayer.

No man is greater than his prayer life. The pastor who is not praying is playing; the people who are not praying are straying. The pulpit can be a shopwindow to display one's talents; the prayer closet allows no showing off.

Dead to the world and all its toys! Its idle pomp and fading joys! Jesus, my glory be!

If we will give God time, He will give us timeless souls.

The sweet hour of prayer as a mid-week breather in the church has been reduced to a sweet twenty minutes of prayer.