Quotes about Transformation
Prayer is not about changing God, but being willing to let God change us.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
My prayer today is that God would make me an extraordinary Christian.
- George Whitefield
Prayer begets Revival, which begets more prayer.
- Jim Cymbala
Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us.
- RC Sproul
Prayer is sitting in the silence until it silences us, choosing gratitude until we are grateful, and praising God until we ourselves are an act of praise.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.
- JC Ryle
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
Prayer doesn't just change things - it changes us. If we are diligent in seeking God, slowly and surely we become better people.
- Joyce Meyer
Prayer is not a check request asking for things from God. It is a deposit slip - a way of depositing God's character into our bankrupt souls.
- Dutch Sheets
Prayer is the breath of the new creature.
- Richard Baxter
Persistence in prayer for someone whom we don't like, however much it goes against the grain to begin with, brings about a remarkable change in attitude.
- FF Bruce
Your prayer for someone may or may not change them, but it always changes YOU.
- Craig Groeschel