Horatio Alger Quotes

We observe that in the scriptures, fasting almost always is linked with prayer. Without prayer, fasting is not complete fasting; it's simply going hungry.

I don't know what heavy penance I would not have gladly undertaken rather than practice prayer.

Nay, men are so far from musing of their sins, that they disdain this practise, and scoff at it: what say they, if all were of your mind; what should become of us? Shall we be always poring on our corruptions?

Frequent prayer has great value. On its surface, this sounds simplistic. But if we're to keep prayer at the forefront of our ministry, we and our people have to pray again and again.

The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

Ramadan is, in its essence, a month of humanist spirituality.

Every Yom Kippur, Jewish tradition requires a strict spiritual inventory. You aren't supposed to just sit around feeling guilty, but to take action in the real world to set things right.

I get the sense people sort of imagine that in my personal religious life I must be an intense rigorist wearing a hair shirt under my clothes while scourging myself. And, really, I'm not a rigorist by temperament.

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

If you find a reluctancy to go into the presence of God, there may be unconfessed, unrepented sin in your life. Part of your quiet time is to get your heart clean and pure. Each of us needs to take ourselves by the nap of our necks and confess and repent before we come into God's holy presence to fellowship.

Went to church and fasted all day.

The man who never fasts is no more in the way to heaven than the man who never prays.

For a successful season of prayer, the best beginning is confession.

The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.

When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts.

Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.

Christians need a time and place to sanctify themselves. It's important to take the time, and early in the morning is a wonderful time to do it.

Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without any omission; and satisfaction by means of good works.

Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean.

The key is - I'll say the key - number one, I pray every day.

Do not neglect secret prayer, for it is the soul of religion.

I think it would be a welcome reminder to every American that we can pray a good deal more at home. We can attend our churches with a good deal more fidelity.

As you read or listen to God's Word and spend time talking to Him in prayer, your spirit will eventually become stronger than your flesh.

My life is such a contradiction. My soul yearns for holiness and then runs from the mortification necessary to attain it.