Quotes about Understanding
If you can't pray as you want to, pray as you can. God knows what you mean.
— Vance Havner
If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer.
— Philip Yancey
It is a tremendously hard thing to pray aright, yea, it is verily the science of all sciences.
— Martin Luther
Without immersion in God's words, our prayers may not be merely limited and shallow but also untethered from reality.
— Timothy Keller
Prayer is the best response to hatred.
— Charles Spurgeon
When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
— Norman Vincent Peale
God does not exist to answer our prayers but by our prayers we come to discern the mind of God.
— Oswald Chambers
Whenever the insistence is on the point that God answers prayer we are off the track. The meaning of prayer is that we get hold of God not of the answer.
— Oswald Chambers
Our understanding of God is the answer to prayer getting things from God is God's indulgence of us. When God stops giving us things He brings us into the place where we can begin to understand Him.
— Oswald Chambers
You say "But He has not answered." He has He is so near to you that His silence is the answer. His silence is big with terrific meaning that you cannot understand yet but presently you will.
— Oswald Chambers
When we pray "in the Name of Jesus" the answers are in accordance with His nature and if we think our prayers are unanswered it is because we are not interpreting the answer along this line.
— Oswald Chambers
The greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect understanding with God and that alters my view of actual things.
— Oswald Chambers