Quotes about Prayer

That is one reason it is hard to get people to pray at church and why prayer meetings are often dead. People don't see that prayer—real, two-way conversation with God—makes any difference.

We are not only asking to be forgiven, we are asking for guidance and wisdom and strength to respond differently tomorrow.

Nowhere is it more important to be in a conversational relationship with God than in our prayer life.

He teaches us how to be in prayer what we are in life and how to be in life what we are in prayer.

The real Jesus, as is now commonly said, is "one who identified with and loves oppressed people and those who are different," calling us to do the same. These words now express the redemptive vision of the Christian left, just as "trusted Christ for forgiveness" or "prayed to receive Jesus" does for the right.

Prayer and speaking with God must be carefully distinguished from superstition in how they work.

We do all we do in the knowledge that we are working alongside him. Moreover, we do this kind of work hand in hand with the cultivation of the mind and spirit through art and imagination, poetry and song, praise, prayer, and worship. These all help our minds to lay hold of this God, this most lovable being in all of reality.

When I put my faith in Jesus Christ as my savior, and I asked him to forgive and to come into my life, and He does — from that moment forward I have established a personal relationship with God that I have to develop, you know, through Bible reading and prayer, and living my life for him.

I always pray for God's guidance in my life and he always provides it. He opens the right doors he shuts the right doors. And I have tremendous faith in him. He just guided my career in an amazing way.

If you believe in prayer at all, expect God to hear you. If you do not expect, you will not have. God will not hear you unless you believe He will hear you; but if you believe He will, He will be as good as your faith.

"Dear friend, I pray that you may enjoy good health and that all may go well with you, even as your soul is getting along well."

I pray that you all put your shoes way under the bed at night so that you gotta get on your knees in the morning to find them. And while you're down there thank God for grace and mercy and understanding.