Quotes About Perspective

I never pray on a golf course. Actually, the Lord answers my prayers everywhere except on the course.

The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles.

Prayers are to men as dolls are to children.

When we pray, we don't change the world, we change ourselves.

Some of us pray demands. Some of us pray complaints. Some of us pray knowing, and some of us pray not knowing. But prayer is the attitude that you hold in your heart.

In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one.

It may be that ministers really think that their prayers do good, and it may be that frogs imagine that their croaking brings spring.

It is only in times of great and grievous dullness that the believer regards prayer as a duty, and not as a privilege.

I've seen prayers answered. But often, in my experiences, if you get what you pray for, you've really shortchanged yourself.

I forget how good I've got it sometimes, how lucky I am just to be alive. And I pass good prayer to the man upstairs just to thank him like I should. Yeah you know, I get it... I've got it good.

Not thinking critically, I assumed that the successful prayers were proof that God answers prayer while the failures were proof that there was something wrong with me.

Our prayers may be an index of how small and self-centered our world is.

Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.

In prayer we call ourselves 'worms of the dust' but it is only on a sort of tacit understanding that the remark shall not be taken at par.

Prayer does not change God but it changes him who prays.

Grant that we may not so much seek to be understood as to understand.

When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.

Why is it when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?

Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view.

What men usually ask of God when they pray is that two and two not make four.

Some people think that prayer just means asking for things and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for they think the whole thing is a fraud.

Whenever the insistence is on the point that God answers prayer we are off the track. The meaning of prayer is that we get hold of God not of the answer.

You say "But He has not answered." He has He is so near to you that His silence is the answer. His silence is big with terrific meaning that you cannot understand yet but presently you will.

The great tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer but unoffered prayer.