Quotes about Transformation
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live. The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.
— DL Moody
Most Christians pray to be blessed. Few pray to be broken.
— Leonard Ravenhill
Though prayer doesn't change God's mind or God's purposes, prayer does change something- It changes us.
— Chuck Smith
We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another.
— William Law
Obedience unites us so closely to God that it in a way transforms us into Him, so that we have no other will but His. If obedience is lacking, even prayer cannot be pleasing to God.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
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