Fulton J. Sheen Quotes

Prayer time must be kept up as duly as meal-time.

Remember that bodily exercise, when it is well ordered, as I have said, is also prayer by means of which you can please God our Lord.

My prayer life and my connection with God are on the highest level.

It is not a matter of time so much as a matter of heart; if you have the heart to pray, you will find the time.

Never say you will pray about a thing; pray about it.

Prayer is the exercise of drawing on the grace of God.

If you're going to say the Jesus Prayer, at least say it to Jesus, and not to St. Francis and Seymour and Heidi's grandfather all wrapped up in one.

You have no time for the prayer meeting, but you have time enough to be brushing your hair to all eternity; you have no time to bend your knee, but plenty of time to make yourselves look smart and grand.

He that is never on his knees on earth shall never stand upon his feet in heaven

It is no natural for a man to pray that no theory can prevent him from doing it.

Went to church and fasted all day.

There is great power in prayer. I strongly encourage personal and family prayer, which are important in building strong families. I'm wondering if many of you parents, you couples, have lost that essential moment of kneeling together at the end of the day, just the two of you, holding hands and saying your prayers. If that has slipped away from your daily routine, may I suggest you put it back-beginning tonight!

No one ever said at the end of his days; 'I have read my bible too much, I have thought of God too much, I have prayed too much, I have been too careful with my soul'

A man who prays much in private will make short prayers in public.

You will never have time for prayer; you must make time.

Playing around is one thing; following an established regimen is quite another. It's true with exercise equipment and it is true with prayer.

Prayer must not be our chance work but our daily business, our habit and vocation.

The test is the sixty seconds of every minute, and the sixty minutes of every hour, not our times of prayer and devotional meetings.

The streams of religion run deep or shallow, according as the banks of the Sabbath are kept up or neglected.

What we do every time we pray is to confess our impotence and God's sovereignty.

Fasting and prayer are common injunctions in my religion.

Many so-called spiritual people, they overeat, drink too much, they smoke and don't exercise. But they do go to church every week and pray 'Please help my arthritis. Please help me bring up my strength, make me young again.'

Prayer and a holy life are one. They mutually act and react. Neither can survive alone. The absence of the one is the absence of the other.

I have made it a practice for several years to read the Bible through in the course of every year. I usually devote to this reading the first hour after I rise every morning. As, including the Apocrypha, it contains about fourteen hundred chapters, and as I meet with occasional interruptions, when this reading is for single days, and sometimes for weeks, or even months, suspended, my rule is to read five chapters every morning, which leaves an allowance of about one-forth of the time for such interruptions.

To be a Christian and to pray are one and the same thing; it is a matter that cannot be left to our caprice. It is a need, a kind of breathing necessary to life.