Quotes About God

God has not changed; and His ear is just as quick to hear the voice of real prayer, and His hand is just as long and strong to save; as it ever was.

Prayer is not getting things from God. That is a most initial stage; prayer is getting into perfect communion with God: I tell Him what I know He knows in order that I may get to know it as He does.

No man's prayer is acceptable with God whose life is not well pleasing before God.

God never ceases to speak to us, but the noise of the world without and the tumult of our passions within bewilder us and prevent us from listening to him

A season of silence is the best preparation for speech with God.

There is power in prayer. When men work, they work. but when men pray, God works.

Love is the fruit of prayer ... Patiently abiding in prayer signifies a man's renunciation of himself. Therefore the self-denial of the soul turns into love for God.

The person who prays more in public than in private reveals that he is less interested in God's approval than in human praise. Not piety but a reputation for piety is his concern.

To be prayerless is to be without God, without Christ, without grace, without hope, and without heaven.

The best and sweetest flowers of paradise God gives to His people when they are upon their knees. Prayer is the gate of heaven.

The Revelation of God is not a book or a doctrine, but a living Person.

If God is not first in our thoughts and efforts in the morning, He will be in the last place the remainder of the day.

Prayer guards hearts and minds and causes God to bring peace out of chaos

The ministry of prayer, if it be anything worthy of the name, is a ministry of ardor, a ministry of unwearied and intense longing after God and after his holiness.

Prayer is not so much a way to find God as a way of resting in him...who loves us, who is near to us.

Prayer is the only adequate way to multiply our efforts fast enough to reap the harvest God desires.

God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer.

Why pray if we cannot change God? ...is that why we pray? To change omniscient Love? Isn't it rather to learn what it is and to fulfill it? Not to change it by our acts, but to change our acts by it.

Prayer opens our lives for God so his will can be done in and through us, because in true prayer we habitually put ourselves into the attitude of willingness to do whatever God wills.

Prayer is the greatest force that we can wield. It is the greatest talent which God has granted us. He has given it to every Christian.

Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.

Prayer is exhaling the spirit of man and inhaling the spirit of God.

The best we can say to God in prayer, is what He has said to us.

Prayer doesn't bend God's arm but it's guaranteed to bend our hearts toward His will. Worry less. Pray more.