Quotes about Understanding
When I pray for another person, I am praying for God to open my eyes so that I can see that person as God does, and then enter into the stream of love that God already directs toward that person.
- Philip Yancey
Seek in reading and you will find in meditation; knock in prayer and it will be opened to you in contemplation.
- John of the Cross
Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.
- Duke Ellington
True prayer is not asking God for love; it is learning to love, and to include all mankind in one affection.
- Mary Baker Eddy
God sometimes answers our prayers by giving us what we would have asked for had we known what He knows.
- JD Greear
The primary purpose of prayer is not to get something, but to know Someone.
- David Platt
The discussion of prayer is so great that it requires the Father to reveal it, His firstborn Word to teach it, and the Spirit to enable us to think and speak rightly of so great a subject.
- Origen
God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.
- Oswald Chambers
When you pray be sure that you listen as well as talk. You have things you want to say to God but He also has things He wants to say to you.
- Joyce Meyer
Heavenly Father hears your prayers, He loves you. He knows your name. He loves you beyond your ability to comprehend.
- Henry B. Eyring
Prayer is not getting things from God. That is a most initial stage; prayer is getting into perfect communion with God: I tell Him what I know He knows in order that I may get to know it as He does.
- Oswald Chambers
Why pray if we cannot change God? ...is that why we pray? To change omniscient Love? Isn't it rather to learn what it is and to fulfill it? Not to change it by our acts, but to change our acts by it.
- Peter Kreeft