Quotes about Devotion
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
It is a tremendously hard thing to pray aright, yea, it is verily the science of all sciences.
— Martin Luther
What can be more excellent than prayer; what is more profitable to our life; what sweeter to our souls; what more sublime, in the course of our whole life, than the practice of prayer!
— St. Augustine
Use "breath prayers" throughout the day, as many Christians have done for centuries. You choose a brief sentence or a simple phrase that can be repeated to Jesus in one breath: "You are with me."
— Rick Warren
Worship seals all prayers at the front and at the back. Always pray with praise beginning and praise ending.
— David Jeremiah
Prayer to be fruitful must come from the heart and must be able to touch the heart of God.
— Mother Teresa
Jesus' pattern prayer, which is both crutch, road, and walking lesson for the spiritually lame like ourselves, tells us to start with God: for God matters infinitely more than we do.
— JI Packer