Quotes About Connection

Prayer to be fruitful must come from the heart and must be able to touch the heart of God.

Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.

I began to see my life and each breath I am given as a living prayer to God and a way to pray for others for our world.

Prayer is asking for guidance. Meditation is listening to it.

Love and prayer are intimately related.

Whole prayer is nothing but love.

Prayer is simply talking to God like a friend and should be the easiest thing we do each day.

We are to be shut out from men, and shut in with God.

Praying solves the problems of prayer.

Meditation is a huge part of my life. And prayer.

Oh, grant me my prayer, that I may never lose the touch of the one in the play of the many.

Great morning prayer is like marinating in the Holy Spirit.

Each person's prayers can help everyone.

Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.

The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.

Prayer is not just getting ready for Christian service. Prayer is Christian service.

There seems to be a human instinct for prayer. Swiss theologian Karl Barth calls it our 'incurable God-sickness.'

Those who always pray are necessary to those who never pray.

The first purpose of prayer is to know God.

I seldom made an errand to God for another but I got something for myself.

Without immersion in God's words, our prayers may not be merely limited and shallow but also untethered from reality.

The angels can be thought of as our prayer partners.

We can be dry as dust, distracted and insensible to God's presence. Still we can pray...and if we make even the smallest gesture of availability he will be there.

Prayer is a place where God and humans meet.