Pope Francis Quotes

I'd rather be able to pray than to be a great preacher; Jesus Christ never taught his disciples how to preach, but only how to pray.

Everything starts with prayer. Love to pray-feel the need to pray often during the day and take the trouble to pray. If you want to pray better, you must pray more. The more you pray, the easier it becomes. Perfect prayer does not consist of many words but in the fervor of the desire which raises the heart to Jesus.

My secret is simple -- I pray.

To me, religion is an agreement between a group of people about what God is. Spirituality is a one-on-one relationship.

I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody's life.

I was always spiritual, even as a child. I was taught to pray, show gratitude. We had an attitude of gratitude. Even if life was ugly, bad or sad - we prayed.

The most important lesson we can learn is how to pray. Prayers do not die, prayers live before God, and God's heart is set on them.

Good praying is more easily caught than taught.

I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

The first, the middle and the last thing to do is to pray.

a spiritual life without prayer is like the gospel without Christ.

A life of prayer is a life whose litanies are ever fresh acts of self-devoting love.

I speak to God every day.

Mine is just a simple old human story - of one person trying, with great rigor and discipline, to comprehend her personal relationship with divinity.

I say three prayers every night to make sure that God knows I thank him so much.

My hectic work schedule does not often permit me time to visit temples, but my conversations with God don't depend on idol worship. Inside my heart, I have developed and sustained a direct communication with Him.

I did not have a personal relationship with Jesus until I met my nanny, who helped me through a failing marriage and raising my two boys in a New York City apartment. She showed me by example what it was like to be able to talk to Jesus and bring all my cares and worries to Him. That was in 1990.

I pray to start my day and finish it in prayer.

I've only paid lip service to a spiritual life.

I'm an actress and mom, and I probably don't have enough of an active spiritual life. And I don't know why people run around calling themselves by the names of religions when they don't actually practise them.

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

Jesus himself talked about prayer and meditation. Anything that brings you closer to the Lord, what's wrong with that?

I am a very spiritual person. Maybe not traditionally religious in terms of Sunday Mass every week, that sort of thing.

You don't necessarily have to be religious to pray.

If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine.