Quotes about God
Prayer to be fruitful must come from the heart and must be able to touch the heart of God.
— Mother Teresa
Therefore, brethren, pray until God gives us revelation so that "knowing this" in our spirit we may truly confess "that our old man has been crucified with him."
— Watchman Nee
When our whole life is one faith, hope, love, prayer and silence, a consecrated life always bound up in the Eucharist, then the 'urge' towards God springs.
— Pope John Paul II
If you are having difficulty loving or relating to an individual, take him to God. Bother the Lord with this person. Don't you be bothered with him - leave him at the throne.
— Charles Swindoll
Jesus' pattern prayer, which is both crutch, road, and walking lesson for the spiritually lame like ourselves, tells us to start with God: for God matters infinitely more than we do.
— JI Packer
Prayer offered without faith by a person that doesn't truly believe God exists will not be effective. Sin in our lives that we refuse to confess will also render our prayers ineffective.
— Anne Graham Lotz
Prayer is never just an emergency flare or desperate anxious gamble. God's attention is not based on our performance but parental love.
— Timothy Keller
A prayer may chance to rise From one whose heart lives in the grace of God. A prayer from any other is unheeded.
— Dante Alighieri
Whole prayer is nothing but love.
— St. Augustine
Prayer is simply talking to God like a friend and should be the easiest thing we do each day.
— Joyce Meyer
Within the Church, sins are forgiven in three ways: by baptism, by prayer, and by the greater humility of penance; yet God does not forgive sins except to the baptized.
— St. Augustine
The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel