 Oh, how strenuous is life! I know a little of it. Men "ought always to pray, and not to faint." How fierce the battle! I know something of the conflict, but I ought not to faint, because I can pray. Author: G. Campbell Morgan |
| How often we say about our earthly friends, "I really would like to have a good quiet settled talk with them so that I can really get to know them." And shouldn't we feel the same about our Heavenly Friend, that we may really get to know Him? These thoughts have taught me the importance of the children of God taking time to commune daily with their Father, so that they may get to know His mind and to understand better what His will is. Author: Hannah Whitall Smith |
| True prayer is an awareness of our helpless need and an acknowledgment of divine adequacy. Author: Ray C. Stedman |
| If God doesn't want something for me, I shouldn't want it either. Spending time in meditative prayer, getting to know God, helps align my desires with God's. Author: Philip Yancey
Source: Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference? |
| Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of time. Author: Philip Yancey
Source: Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference? |
| Some who attempt prayer never have the sense of anyone listening on the other end. They blame themselves for doing it wrong.... Prayer requires the faith to believe that God listens. Author: Philip Yancey
Source: Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference? |
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| Prayer may seem at first like disengagement, a reflective time to consider God's point of view. But that vantage presses us back to accomplish God's will, the work of the kingdom. We are God's fellow workers, and as such we turn to prayer to equip us for the partnership. Author: Philip Yancey
Source: Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference? |
| Our problem is that we assume prayer is something to master the way we master algebra or auto mechanics. But when praying, we come "underneath," where we calmly and deliberately surrender control and become incompetent. Author: Richard J. Foster |
| Prayer involves transformed passions. In prayer, real prayer, we begin to think God's thoughts after Him: to desire the things He desires, to love the things He loves, to will the things He wills. Author: Richard J. Foster |
| Prayer is the human response to the perpetual outpouring of love by which God lays siege to every soul. Author: Richard J. Foster |
| The truth of the matter is, we all come to prayer with a tangled mass of motives altruistic and selfish, merciful and hateful, loving and bitter. Frankly, this side of eternity we will never unravel the good from the bad, the pure from the impure. God is big enough to receive us with all our mixture. Author: Richard J. Foster |
| I realize that many Christians have not been praying because they have not accepted the reality of war in which we find ourselves. There is a spiritual war mode that we must appropriate. It is an aggressive stance that we take against evil. It is governed by love for people, but it is fearless and uncompromising with the powers of darkness that manipulate people to fulfill evil plans. Author: Francis Frangipane |
