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Quotes About Transformation

I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us, and we change things.
~ Mother Teresa
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Prayer is not an argument with God to persuade him to move things our way, but an exercise by which we are enabled by his Spirit to move ourselves his way.
~ Leonard Ravenhill
Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live. The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.
~ Dwight L. Moody
Most Christians pray to be blessed. Few pray to be broken.
~ Leonard Ravenhill
Though prayer doesn't change God's mind or God's purposes, prayer does change something- It changes us.
~ Chuck Smith
We cannot pray and remain the same.
~ Ruth Graham
History belongs to the intercessors - those who believe and pray the future into being.
~ Walter Wink
Sweat your prayers, dance your pain, and move on.
~ Gabrielle Roth
Whenever God is ready to do something new with His people, He always sets them to praying.
~ J. Edwin Orr
Prayer is the only way to amend your life: and without prayer, it will never be mended.
~ Alexander Whyte
Prayer is not what is done by us, but rather what is done by the Holy Spirit in us.
~ Henri Nouwen
In contemplative prayer we seek to become the person we are called to be, not by thinking of God, but by being with God. Simply to be with God is to be drawn into being the person God calls us to be
~ John Main
Prayer turns ordinary mortals into men of power. It brings power. It brings fire. It brings rain. It brings life. It brings God.
~ Samuel Chadwick
We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another.
~ William Law
Prayer isn't where we change God, but He changes us. Instead of praying for OUR desires, let's pray He burden us with HIS.
~ Lecrae
Obedience unites us so closely to God that it in a way transforms us into Him, so that we have no other will but His. If obedience is lacking, even prayer cannot be pleasing to God.
~ Thomas Aquinas
Prayer is not about changing God, but being willing to let God change us.
~ Richard Rohr
My prayer today is that God would make me an extraordinary Christian.
~ George Whitefield
To get nations back on their feet, we must first get down on our knees.
~ Billy Graham
Prayer begets Revival, which begets more prayer.
~ Jim Cymbala
Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us.
~ R. C. Sproul
Prayer is sitting in the silence until it silences us, choosing gratitude until we are grateful, and praising God until we ourselves are an act of praise.
~ Richard Rohr
God shapes the world by prayer. The more prayer there is in the world the better the world will be, the mightier the forces of against evil
~ Edward McKendree Bounds