Quotes about Devotion

Short prayers pierceth Heaven.

When we make self the end of prayer, it is not worship but self-seeking.

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

Prayer is the soul's breathing itself into the bosom of its heavenly Father.

Do not have your concert first and tune your instruments afterwards. Begin the day with God.

All my life I have risen regularly at four o'clock and have gone into the woods and talked to God. There He gives me my orders for the day.

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship.

I used to think the Lord's Prayer was a short prayer; but as I live longer, and see more of life, I begin to believe there is no such thing as getting through it. If a man, in praying that prayer, were to be stopped by every word until he had thoroughly prayed it, it would take him a lifetime.

Sacrifice is the ecstasy of giving the best we have to the One we love most.

If done as God wants.' then leadership will surely include intercessory prayer. The saintly Bishop Azariah of India once remarked to Bishop Stephen Neill that he found time to pray daily, by name, for every leader in his extensive diocese. Little wonder that during his thirty years of eldering there, the diocese tripled its membership and greatly increase in spiritual effectiveness

One must love what is nearest, one must love what is to hand, as a dog loves.