Quotes about Devotion
We must resist wandering thoughts in prayer. Raising our hands reminds us that we need to raise up our minds to God, setting aside all irrelevant thoughts.
- John Calvin
If we rely on the Holy Spirit, we shall find that our prayers become more and more inarticulate; and when they are inarticulate, reverence grows deeper and deeper.
- Oswald Chambers
If you can't pray as you want to, pray as you can. God knows what you mean.
- Vance Havner
Worship and intercession must go together, the one is impossible without the other. Intercession means that we rouse ourselves up to get the mind of Christ about the one for whom we pray.
- Oswald Chambers
The more you praise, the more vigor you will have for prayer; and the more you pray, the more matter you will have for praise.
- JI Packer
Christians fight best on their knees. Whatever good may be done is done and brought about by prayer.
- Martin Luther
Consistent prayer is the desire to do right.
- Mary Baker Eddy
Give us an intense distaste for things that displease You and a renewed pleasure in things that bring You honor and magnify Your truth.
- Charles Swindoll
If by losing the spirit of prayer, you mean losing the heavenly sensations of deep devotion, I am afraid that does not matter a scrap.
- Evelyn Underhill
Prayer is an effort of will.
- Oswald Chambers
Playing around is one thing; following an established regimen is quite another. It's true with exercise equipment and it is true with prayer.
- Bill Hybels
Prayer will become effective when we stop using it as a substitute for obedience.
- AW Tozer