Quotes About Understanding

One of the things Satan fears the most is that you would get the revelation of what you can do through prayer.

The Lord's Prayer may be committed to memory quickly, but it is slowly learnt by heart.

The primary purpose of prayer is not to get something, but to know Someone.

The discussion of prayer is so great that it requires the Father to reveal it, His firstborn Word to teach it, and the Spirit to enable us to think and speak rightly of so great a subject.

God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.

Triumphant prayer is almost impossible where there is neglect of the study of the Word of God.

When you pray be sure that you listen as well as talk. You have things you want to say to God but He also has things He wants to say to you.

Heavenly Father hears your prayers, He loves you. He knows your name. He loves you beyond your ability to comprehend.

When a man has found the Lord, he no longer has to use words when he is praying, for the Spirit Himself will intercede for him with groans that cannot be uttered.

Prayer is not getting things from God. That is a most initial stage; prayer is getting into perfect communion with God: I tell Him what I know He knows in order that I may get to know it as He does.

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.

Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you.

The best we can say to God in prayer, is what He has said to us.

No matter how softly you whisper a prayer, God hears and understands.

God can pick sense out of a confused prayer.

The whole meaning of prayer is that we may know God.

Seek in reading and thou shalt find in meditation; knock in prayer and it shall be opened in contemplation.

Prayer is simple, prayer is supernatural, and to anyone not related to our Lord Jesus Christ, prayer is apt to look stupid.

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?

God's answers are wiser than our prayers.

God will only give you what you would have asked for if you knew everything he knows

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

It's not my business to try and make God think like me... but to try, in prayer and penitence, to think like God.