Quotes about devotions

Cut your morning devotions into your personal grooming. You would not go out to work with a dirty face. Why start the day with the face of your soul unwashed?

— Robert A. Cook

How rare it is to find a soul quiet enough to hear God speak.

— Francois FeNelon

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

— Martin Luther

We are to be shut out from men, and shut in with God.

— Andrew Murray

A devotee who can call on God while living a householder's life is a hero indeed. God thinks: 'He is blessed indeed who prays to me in the midst of his worldly duties. He is trying to find me, overcoming a great obstacle -- pushing away, as it were, a huge block of stone weighing a ton. Such a man is a real hero.

— Sri Ramakrishna

An essential condition of listening to God is that the mind should not be distracted by thoughts of resentment, ill-temper, hatred or vengeance, all of which are comprised in the general term, the wrath of man.

— R. V. G. Tasker

Whatever is your best time in the day, give that to communion with God.

— Hudson Taylor