Tony Verna Quotes

Nothing is more important to God than prayer in dealing with mankind. But it is likewise all-important to man to pray.

I listen and talk to God daily.

Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.

I speak to God every day.

Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.

Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

It always helps to have a bit of prayer in your back pocket. At the end of the day, you have to have something, and for me, that is God, Jesus, my Catholic upbringing, my faith.

Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.

I always believed in Jesus and God as a little boy.

Put your mind on the gospel. And remember - there's one God for all.

People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.

I'm probably at my least religious I've ever been in a while. When you're moved by music, that's always good. But I haven't been talking to God too much lately.

The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.

I love religion.

Spirituality was the main issue. Connection with God was the main issue.

My Latin education teaches me that religion comes from religio, which means, 'to bind.' To bind with rope. And that's all it means. So whenever I hear somebody go, 'I feel so religious right now!' I'm like, 'Well, you're tying yourself up in knots, are you?'

I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go.

Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.

I talk to Allah, I pray to him.

There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God.

The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us.

Do not neglect secret prayer, for it is the soul of religion.

I've taught a lot about prayer over the years and how it is really just talking to God.

The Lord's Prayer reminds us that God longs for His people to communicate with Him, not just in church on Sunday, but wherever we are and whatever our need.

The Bible is a letter God has sent to us; prayer is a letter we send to him.