Thomas Erskine Quotes

That man is the most immortal who has done the most and the best praying. They are God heroes, God's saints, God's servants, God's vicegerents.

Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.

There is the type of man who gives his life to earn the pleasure of Allah...

As a Catholic, I find mindfulness helps me participate in my religion more wholeheartedly. If you are praying the rosary, participating in the rituals at Mass, or listening to the priest preach, you will actually be paying attention! Whatever your religion is, it can enhance the experience of participating in that religion.

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!

When the day of recompense comes, our only regret will be that we have done so little for Him, not that we have done too much.

There is nothing small in the service of God.

Serve God by doing common actions in a heavenly spirit, and then, if your daily calling only leaves you cracks and crevices of time, fill them up with holy service.

When prayer fades out, power fades out. We are as spiritual as we are prayerful; no more, no less.

‎What you do in your house is worth as much as if you did it up in heaven for our Lord God. We should accustom ourselves to think of our position and work as sacred and well-pleasing to God, not on account of the position and work, but on account of the word and faith from which the obedience and work flow.

The men who have done the most for God in this world have been early on their knees.

Remember to pray fervently.

Unless we perform divine service with every willing act of our life, we never perform it at all.

Through humble prayer, diligent preparation, and faithful service, we can succeed in our sacred callings.

Yajna is duty to be performed, or service to be rendered, all twenty-four hours of the day.

The most important of your affairs in my view is prayer; whoever prays regularly has protected his faith, but whoever neglects it, is bound to be more negligent in other issues of faith.

I think poetry has started to take on a supplementary role of prayer for some people. The churches, I think, including my own, are terrible at teaching people how to pray. It may be that we need to learn from the ground up as religious people, whether Christian or not, how to pray.

To pray is to desire; but it is to desire what God would have us desire.

My prayer, my sacrifice, my life and my death is all for Allah, The Lord of The Worlds.

It is a tremendously hard thing to pray aright, yea, it is verily the science of all sciences.

There are many things that are perfectly legitimate, but if you are going to concentrate on God you cannot do them.

Let us keep the flame of faith alive through prayer and the sacraments: let us make sure we do not forget God.

It is a good rule never to look into the face of a man in the morning till you have looked into the face of God.