John Bunyan Quotes

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.

However one might pray - in any verbal way or completely without words - is unimportant to God. What matters is the heart's intent.

As you talk to Heavenly Father and pour out your heart to Him, you will draw closer to Him. Then pause, stop, and listen to the feelings of your heart. Seek to understand the promptings of the Spirit. As you pray sincerely, you will come to feel Heavenly Father's great love for you.

Praying doesn't mean repeating a prayer.

Those who pray from the heart do not think about the prayer they are saying, but about the God to whom they pray.

You're not gonna get through life without being worshipful or devoted to something. You're either devoted to your job, or to your desires. So the best way to spend your life is to try to be devoted to prayer, to Allah.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

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

Do I pray? Yes. Prayer is very important to me.

For me, it is essential to have the inner peace and serenity of prayer in order to listen to the silence of God, which speaks to us, in our personal life and the history of our times, of the power of love.

You can't fake it when you're alone with God, you know.

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

It takes me forever to say my prayers these days, but I don't care, because this time around, I want to make sure God doesn't have to do any guesswork.

It's about your heart and about your consciousness. It's not about length of time you pray. Some of the most powerful prayers I've ever heard come from children, who can barely speak.

When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart.

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

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

I pray every day. In the mornings and, before I go to bed. I think it's important to pray not just when things are going bad. When things are going bad, it's easy to pray and ask God to help you out, but it's also important to pray when things are going well and show your appreciation.

I pray everywhere and with all my heart.

I don't think it's corny to pray at all.

Faith is a very intimate process that involves being sincere and truthful to a spiritual presence.

I think I'm constantly resorting to making sure to keep God's perspective in my mind.

Worship or prayer is not to be performed with the lips, but with the heart.

I wish not merely to be called Christian, but also to be Christian.