Quotes about Change
I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us, and we change things.
— Mother Teresa
You can pray until you faint, but unless you get up and try to do something, God is not going to put it in your lap.
— Fannie Lou Hamer
Prayer doesn't change things - God changes things in answer to prayer.
— John Calvin
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
— Soren Kierkegaard
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
Prayer does not change the purpose of God. But prayer does change the action of God.
— Chuck Smith
I invite you to bow your head and quietly whisper the prayer that will change your eternity: Jesus I believe in you and I receive you.
— Rick Warren
Prayer is not about changing God, but being willing to let God change us.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
We shall never see much change for the better in our churches in general till the prayer meeting occupies a higher place in the esteem of Christians.
— Charles Spurgeon
Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us.
— RC Sproul
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