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Quotes About God

Prayer is the disciplined refusal to act before God acts.
~ Eugene H. Peterson
The physical voice we use in prayer need not be great nor startling; even should we not lift up any great cry or shout, God will yet hear us.
~ Origen
You can set up an altar to God in your minds by means of prayer. And so it is fitting to pray at your trade, on a journey, standing at a counter or sitting at your handicraft.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
The Bible is a letter God has sent to us; prayer is a letter we send to him.
~ Matthew Henry
There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful, than that of a continual conversation with God; those only can comprehend it who practice and experience it.
~ Brother Lawrence
Prayer is not a painful effort to gain from God help in the varying needs of life. Prayer is the desire to possess God Himself
~ Sadhu Sundar Singh
Prayer is essentially a partnership of the redeemed child of God working hand in hand with God toward the realization of His redemptive purposes on earth.
~ Jack W. Hayford
It is a good rule never to look into the face of a man in the morning till you have looked into the face of God.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Our prayers cannot force God to do anything, but He uses them as His own instruments to bring about His will.
~ R. C. Sproul
Prayer at its highest is a two-way conversation - and for me the most important part is listening to God's replies.
~ Frank Laubach
Though prayer doesn't change God's mind or God's purposes, prayer does change something- It changes us.
~ Chuck Smith
No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.
~ J. C. Ryle
A man may study because his brain is hungry for knowledge, even Bible knowledge. But he prays because his soul is hungry for God.
~ Leonard Ravenhill
Be constantly committed to prayer or to reading [Scripture]; by praying, you speak to God, in reading, God speaks to you.
~ Cyprian
Persistent calling upon the name of the Lord breaks through every stronghold of the devil, for nothing is impossible with God. For Christians in these troubled times there is simply no other way.
~ Jim Cymbala
God loves importunate prayer so much that He will not give us much blessing without it.
~ Adoniram Judson
Our prayers lay the track down which Gods power can come. Like a mighty locomotive, his power is irresistible, but it cannot reach us without rails.
~ Watchman Nee
Prayer is the deliberate and persevering action of the soul. It is true and enduring, and full of grace. Prayer fastens the soul to God and makes it one with God's will.
~ Julian of Norwich
With God there is no need for long speeches.
~ Jane Frances de Chantal
Start today by practicing constant conversation with God and continual mediation on his Word. Prayer lets you speak to God; mediation lets God speak to you.
~ Rick Warren
Will God or someone give me the power to breathe my sigh into my canvases, the sigh of prayer and sadness, the prayer of salvation, of rebirth?
~ Marc Chagall
Four things let us ever keep in mind: God hears prayer, God heeds prayer, God answers prayer, and God delivers by prayer.
~ Edward McKendree Bounds
Unless we believe that God renews creation every day, our prayers grow habitual and tedious.
~ Baal Shem Tov
Without Prayer nothing good is done. God's works are done with our hands joined, and on our knees. Even when we run, we must remain spiritually kneeling before Him.
~ Luigi Orione