Philip James Bailey Quotes

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

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

Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.

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

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

I spent a lot of time in India with my father. I don't know all about their religion. But I know they love God. And I don't know. I've seen their sincerity.

There are no tricks in plain and simple faith.

Faith is professed with the lips and with the heart, through words & through love.

God does not 'love' us without liking us.

Know that when you seek anything of your own, you will never find God, because you do not seek God purely. You are seeking something along with God, and you are acting just as if you were to make a candle out of God in order to look for something with it. Once one finds the things one is looking for, one throws the candle away. This is what you are doing.

Interest in religion is not necessarily interest in God. Religion in public life means a set of ideas, an ideology that has certain positions. Religion is then one more ideology among others. Religion is about God. Religion begins with a relationship to God, not a relationship to an idea. It is God who is an actor, not just individuals who have certain beliefs who are actors. God is an actor.

Great faith, like great strength in general, is revealed by the ease of its workings. Most of what we think we see as the struggle OF faith is really the struggle to act as IF we had faith when in fact we do not.

God does not care If I am bad or good- He wants my love, Not my sainthood.

It must not content us to take our bodies to church if we leave our hearts at home.

Christians and camels receive their burdens kneeling.

I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether.

Faith is required of thee, and a sincere life, not loftiness of intellect, nor deepness in the mysteries of God.

In prayer the lips ne'er act the winning part, Without the sweet concurrence of the heart.

God's acceptance of us cannot be gained by our successes nor forfeited by our failures.

I desire no other proof of Christianity than the Lord's Prayer.

Love is the only prayer I know.

That there needed neither art nor science for going to GOD, but only a heart resolutely determined to apply itself to nothing but Him, or for His sake, and to love Him only.

As men get on in life, they acquire a love for sincerity, and somewhat less solicitude to be lulled or amused. In the progress ofthe character, there is an increasing faith in the moral sentiment, and a decreasing faith in propositions.

If God cared only about religious activities, then the Pharisees would have been heroes of the faith.