Quotes About Connection

The reason for prayer is intimacy of relation with our Father.

O Lord, how good it is for me to know Thee; how essentially necessary it is for me to draw nigh to Thee. How can I falter when Thou art my Life!

The purpose of prayer is that we get ahold of God, not of the answer.

Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life of the saint. Beware of anything that stops the offering up of prayer.

To live a distant, withdrawn, and secluded life is diametrically opposed to spirituality as Jesus Christ taught it.

One of the reasons of stultification in prayer is that there is no imagination, no power of putting ourselves deliberately before God.

The transfiguration was completed on the Mount of Ascension. If Jesus had gone to heaven directly from the Mount of Transfiguration, He would have gone alone. He would have been nothing more to us than a glorious Figure. But He turned His back on the glory, and came down from the mountain to identify Himself with fallen humanity.

Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life.

And the only solution is a very simple one—"Come to Me." The intellectual, moral, and spiritual depth of our reality as a person is tested and measured by these words.

To live a distant, withdrawn, and secluded life is diametrically opposed to spirituality as Jesus Christ taught

Do I have a personal history with Jesus Christ? The one true sign of discipleship is intimate oneness with Him—a

There must be a mechanical [physical] outlet for spiritual inspiration. You must DO [in the physical] what you see [in the spiritual], or become BLIND in that particular.

Paul was like a musician who gives no thought to audience approval, if he can only catch a look of approval from his Conductor.

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.

If we think of prayer as the breath in our lungs and the blood from our hearts, we think rightly. The blood flows ceaselessly, and breathing continues ceaselessly; we are not conscious of it, but it is always going on. We are not always conscious of Jesus keeping us in perfect joint with God, but if we are obeying Him, He always is. Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life.

It is not likely that sin will interfere with our intercessory relationship with God, but sympathy will. It is sympathy with ourselves or with others that makes us say, "I will not allow that thing to happen." And instantly we are out of that vital connection with God.

Have I a personal history with Jesus Christ? The one sign of discipleship is intimate connection with Him, a knowledge of Jesus Christ which nothing can shake.

Prayer is not a normal part of the life of the natural man.

If you have never used your mind to place yourself before God, begin to do it now.

We have to be so one with God that we do not continually need to ask for guidance.

The value of a life can only be estimated by its spiritual relationship to God.

Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work.

Cannibalism alone unites us. Socially. Economically. Philosophically.

At all times and in all places, the men and women of every culture deserve each other.