Quotes About Communication

The silence of prayer is the silence of listening.

We can do nothing without prayer.

Prayers for the condemned man will be offered on an adding machine. Numbers constitute the only universal language.

Those prayers God likes best which come seething hot from the heart.

Prayer is the thermometer of grace.

Saying one's prayers isn't exactly the same thing as praying.

I'll tell you what's more important than all the commentaries in your library: prayer.

Prayer is like a great love. When you start dating the silence can be awkward, but as you grow to know each other you can sit in silence for hours and just being with each other is a great comfort.

I often pray, though I'm not really sure Anyone's listening; and I phrase it carefully, just in case He's literary.

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

Trying to describe what I do in prayer would be like telling the world how I make love to my wife.

In vocal prayer we speak to God; in mental prayer he speaks to us. It is then that God pours Himself into us.

True contact between beings is established only by mute presence, by apparent non-communication, by that mysterious and wordless exchange which resembles inward prayer.

Avail yourself of the greatest privilege this side of heaven. Jesus Christ died to make this communion and communication with the Father possible.

God will hear His people at the beginning of their prayers if the condition of their heart is ready for it.

Prayer is not designed for the furnishing of God with the knowledge of what we need, but it is designed as a confession to him of our sense of need.

Everything we do, our entire interior monologue, is prayer.

That man cannot possibly be called a Christian, who does not pray.

Sometimes when your child talks, your friends cannot understand what he says; but the mother understands very well. So if our prayer comes from the heart, God understands our language.

Every single emotion you have should be processed in prayer.

Prayer is not only asking, it is an attitude of heart that produces an atmosphere in which asking is perfectly natural, and Jesus says, "every one that asketh receiveth."

All our prayers are addressed in the handwriting of the heart.

They tell me, Lord, that when I seem To be in speech with you. Since but one voice is heard, it

Prayer is more than words. It's listening, seeing and feeling.