Quotes About Relationship

Prayer and a holy life are one. They mutually act and react. Neither can survive alone. The absence of the one is the absence of the other.

Those who know God the best are the richest and most powerful in prayer. Little acquaintance with God, and strangeness and coldness to Him, make prayer a rare and feeble thing.

God warms his hands at man's heart when he prays.

If we seem to get no good by attempting to draw near to Him, we may be sure we will get none by keeping away from Him.

The key to praying with power is to become the kind of persons who do not use God for our ends but are utterly devoted to being used for His ends.

Jesus did not have a value for prayer for prayer's sake. He had a value for the intimate communion between God and man.

Real prayer comes not from gritting our teeth but from falling in love.

Prayer is the thermometer of grace.

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.

Not a lot of individuals get to refer to the Lord in their prayers as 'Dude', but he's doing a new thing with me.

That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth.

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

Prayer is not so much the means whereby God's will is bent to man's desires, as it is that whereby man's will is bent to God's desires.

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If I call not thee in my prayers, if I keep not thee in my heart, thy love for me still waits for my love.

You may as soon find a living man who does not breathe, as a living Christian who does not pray.

Jesus' pattern prayer, which is both crutch, road, and walking lesson for the spiritually lame like ourselves, tells us to start with God: for God matters infinitely more than we do.

Prayer is never just an emergency flare or desperate anxious gamble. God's attention is not based on our performance but parental love.

Love and prayer are intimately related.

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

Prayer is a place where God and humans meet.

It is precisely because we cannot see God that we can only know that our prayer is valid by the effect it has upon our lives, by the way we treat our neighbor.

Anything you say from your heart to God is a prayer.