Abandoned Quote by Brother Lawrence

I have quitted all forms of devotion and set prayers but those to which my state obliges me. And I make it my business…

— Brother Lawrence

What we feel at prayer is God's business, not ours, and we must strive to be totally abandoned to the presence of 'consolation' or…

— Sheila Cassidy

Prayer thrives in the atmosphere of true devotion.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

I tend to do a lot of praying, kind of like when Jesus was overwhelmed and at the end of a long day, He…

— Jonathan Roumie

I was raised with a strong belief in prayer. And that's never really left me. I find it great to close your eyes, breathe,…

— Kevin Daniels

Prayer is a very precious medicine, one that certainly helps and never fails, if you will only use it.

— Martin Luther

Prayer doesn't work because someone out there is listening, it works because someone in here is listening. I've paid attention. I've pictured what I…

— Adam Savage

Devotion is a tool to dissolve yourself into nothingness and become the very hand of the Divine.

— Jaggi Vasudev

Prayer no longer seems like an activity to me; it has become the continuing language of the relationship I believe God designed to fulfill…

— Keith Miller

I feel that very frequently prayer is made a refuge to dodge the action of faith.

— John G. Lake

“Prayerful paying attention is not scrunching up our willpower and tightening our focus, but simply opening our self to what we encounter. This makes…

— David G. Benner

“When the mind, for want of being sufficiently reduced by recollection at our first engaging in devotion, has contracted certain bad habits of wandering…

— Brother Lawrence