Quotes About God

Prayers born out of murmuring are always dangerous. When, therefore, we are in a discontented mood, let'us take care what we cry for, lest God give it to us, and thereby punish us.

In our prayers, we talk to God, in our Bible study, God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.

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

Prayer is not asking God to do something, it's asking God to help YOU do something

When we pray to God we must be seeking nothing - nothing.

We know that prayer in and of itself cannot save us, but carrying it out before God can. For when the Lord's eyes are upon us He sanctifies us, as the sun warms everything upon which it shines.

We must never forget to pray, and to ask God to remember us when He is arranging things, so that we too may feel safe and have no anxiety about what is going to happen.

What a friend we have in Jesus, all our sins and griefs to bear. What a privilege to carry everything to God in prayer.

Prayer is not a discourse. It is a form of life, the life with God. That is why it is not confined to the moment of verbal statement.

Prayer is happy company with God.

There is no such thing as a powerful prayer; we only have powerful people praying to a powerful God.

We pray not to inform God or instruct Him but to beseech Him closely, to be made intimate with Him, by continuance in supplication; to be humbled; to be reminded of our sins.

To stand before men on behalf of God is one thing. To stand before God on behalf of men is something entirely different.

The reason why we obtain no more in prayer is because we expect no more. God usually answers us according to our own hearts.

The small prayers of weak and broken people move the heart of God.

Prayer is beyond any question the highest activity of the human soul. Man is at his greatest and highest when upon his knees he comes face to face with God.

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.

Prayer does not change the purpose of God. But prayer does change the action of God.

It is the opener of the heart of God, and a means by which the soul, though empty, is filled.

Prayer is preoccupation with our needs. Praise is preoccupation with our blessings. Worship is preoccupation with GOD Himself.

God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.

God speaks in the silence of the heart, and we listen. And then we speak to God from the fullness of our heart, and God listens. And this listening and this speaking is what prayer is meant to be.

Learn to move man, through God, by prayer alone

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.