Devotional Practice Quotes

The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart.

Music is my religion.

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.

The Rosary is the book of the blind, where souls see and there enact the greatest drama of love the world has ever known; it is the book of the simple, which initiates them into mysteries and knowledge more satisfying than the education of other men.

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.

If I should neglect prayer but a single day, I should lose a great deal of the fire of faith.

The voice that called us years ago still calls us today. Every monastic day is a new monastic beginning.

Read a little. Meditate more. Think of God all the time.

I pursue God on a daily basis, I'm not stepping into oblivion.

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

For the person who loves God, worship is the daily bread of patience.

You must pray for yourself constantly. How could it be otherwise? We worship God by believing in Him, trusting Him, and loving Him wholeheartedly - and we can attain to that only through prayer. The sole object of our being here is that we may grow like Him - and we can do that only through prayer. The more we pray for ourselves the more power will our prayers have for any other purpose whatever; so praying for ourselves is the reverse of selfishness - it is truly glorifying God.

It's very important to have that prayer life. It's very important to communicate always.

The first and last stages of holy living are crowned with praying.

Often the work of the Lord itself may be a temptation to keep us from that communion with Him which is so essential to the benefit of our own souls.

I wake up a little before six, and I go right to my study. That's where I do my daily reading of the Oswald Chambers book, 'My Utmost for His Highest.'

Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer.

Read the Bible daily. Make it part of your everyday business to read and meditate on some portion of God's Word. Gather your manna fresh every morning. Choose your own seasons and hours. Do not scramble over and hurry your reading. Give your Bible the best, and not the worst, part of your time. But whatever plan you pursue, let it be a rule of your life to visit the throne of grace and the Bible every day.

The more we are happy in Krishna Consciousness, the more we become purified.

Fasting, coupled with mighty prayer, is powerful.

Through the Rosary the faithful receive abundant grace, as though from the very hands of the Mother of the Redeemer.

If the Lord is to be Lord, worship must have priority in our lives. The divine priority is worship first, service second.

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

We're here to be worshipers first and workers only second

As we are involved in unceasing thinking, so we are called to unceasing prayer.