If you let even a little sin into your heart, it's going to contaminate your prayers. Your Christian life will not achieve its full potential.

Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.

The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business.

...It is far more sinful to pray irregularly than not to pray at all.

Energy is a real thing, so whether it’s with people or what you read it comes with the spaces you enter. You allow yourself to absorb those things and they will have an impact on you. If you are consuming a diet everyday of negativity and danger, and thoughts that everyone is out to get you, this is all that will consume you. Even when you are saying your prayers this is all that is going to consume your prayer pattern. You are going to keep fighting demons in your prayers.

If you're tolerating sin in your life, my friend, don't waste your breath praying unless it's a prayer of confession.

Sin is anti-will to God's will; it sets itself to oppose preaching, prayer, and all the institutions of God.

Prayer is the pillar of your religion and one who intentionally forsakes his prayer has destroyed his religion. And one who does not guard the times of the prayers, shall be made to enter ‘Wayl’, which is a valley in Hell, as Allah, the Exalted, has said: "So woe to the praying ones, who are unmindful of their prayers."

I cannot pray, except I sin; I cannot preach, but I sin; I cannot administer or receive the holy sacrament, but I sin. My very repentance needs to be repented of; and the tears I shed need washing in the blood of Christ.

One leak will sink a ship, and one sin will destroy a sinner.

It’s inevitable that worship decays into contempt, because worship is ultimately about being trapped, being a slave.

Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.

Whatever we worship, short of God, is sure to be our undoing.

Sin is man's destruction. Only the rust of sin can consume the soul-or eternally destroy it. For here indeed is the remarkable thing from which already that simple wise man of olden time derived a proof of the immortality of the soul, that the sickness of the soul (sin) is not like bodily sickness which kills the body. Sin is not a passage-way which a man has to pass through once, for from it one shall flee; sin is not (like suffering) the instant, but an eternal fall from the eternal, hence it is not ‘once’, and it cannot possibly be that its ‘once’ is no time. No, just as between the rich man in hell and Lazarus in Abraham's bosom there was a yawning gulf fixed, so is there also a yawning distinction between suffering and sin. Let us not confuse it, lest talk about suffering might become less frank-hearted, because it had also sin in mind, and this less frank-hearted talk might be boldly impudent inasmuch as it is talking this way about sin. This precisely is the Christian position, that there is this infinite distinction between evil and evil, as they are confusedly named; this precisely is the Christian characteristic, to talk of temporal sufferings ever more and more frank-heartedly, more triumphantly, more joyfully, because Christianity regarded, sin, and sin only, is destructive.