Quotes about Understanding
Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you.
- JC Ryle
God can pick sense out of a confused prayer.
- Richard Sibbes
The whole meaning of prayer is that we may know God.
- Oswald Chambers
Seek in reading and thou shalt find in meditation; knock in prayer and it shall be opened in contemplation.
- John of the Cross
Why is it that when we talk to God, it's called 'prayer,' but when God speaks to us, it's called schizophrenia?
- Henry Blackaby
God will only give you what you would have asked for if you knew everything he knows
- Timothy Keller
It's not my business to try and make God think like me... but to try, in prayer and penitence, to think like God.
- AW Tozer
No prayer fully expresses our faith.
- Oscar Romero
Prayer is the act of seeing reality from God's point of view.
- Philip Yancey
A lot of the shadow self is the home of poetry, story, prayer. My deepest understandings are often released from the part of me of which I am least aware most of the time.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Believers must persevere in prayer that they may see clearly their own pitiful state and understand the indwelling, working, and demands of the Holy Spirit.
- Watchman Nee
Prayer continues in the desire of the heart, though the understanding be employed on outward things.
- John Wesley