Quotes about Spirituality
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
He who labors as he prays lifts his heart to God with his hands.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
Prayer is climbing up into the heart of God.
— Martin Luther
To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Give yourself to prayer, to reading and meditation on divine truths: strive to penetrate to the bottom of them and never be content with a superficial knowledge.
— David Brainerd
More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Prevailing prayer is that which secures an answer. Saying prayers is not offering prevailing prayer. The prevalence of prayer does not depend so much on quantity as on quality.
— Charles Finney
Prayer is an earnest and familiar talking with God.
— John Knox