Quotes About Communication

Prayer is listening as well as speaking, receiving as well as asking; and its deepest mood is friendship held in reverence. So the daily prayer should end as it begins - in adoration.

If we could all hear one another's prayers, God might be relieved of some of his burdens.

Why is it that when we talk to God, it's called 'prayer,' but when God speaks to us, it's called schizophrenia?

Prayer is not monologue, but dialogue; God's voice is its most essential part. Listening to God's voice is the secret of the assurance that He will listen to mine.

Prayer is not the answer. God is the answer. Prayer is the vehicle by which we reach God.

We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense.

It is not surprising that prayer malfunctions when we try to make it a domestic intercom to call upstairs for more comforts in the den.

When we become too glib in prayer we are most surely talking to ourselves.

We ought to act with God in the greatest simplicity, speak to Him frankly and plainly, and implore His assistance in our affairs.

Why do you pray if you doubt you are heard?

Prayer is the song of the heart. It reaches the ear of God even if it is mingled with the cry and the tumult of a thousand men.

Americans suffer from mono-lingual myopia - a disease of the tongue that affects the vision.

No prayer fully expresses our faith.

There is nothing a natural man hates more than prayer.

Prayer is a serious thing. We may be taken at our words.

Our true character comes out in the way we pray.

Communicating our questions, hopes, and fears in prayer makes them-even to ourselves-more open and clear.

Poetry to me is prayer.

The world was made partly that there may be prayer; partly that our prayers might be answered.

Prayer is first of all listening to God. It's openness. God is always speaking; he's always doing something.

Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.

Prayer is the opening of the soul to God so that he can speak to us.

Prayer is ecstatic communication with your innernavigational computer.

The prayer preceding all prayers is 'May it be the real I who speaks. May it be the real Thou that I speak to.'