Quotes from Pete Greig

God is not a mindless dispenser of demolition techniques; he is looking for relationship with those who dare to trust him against all other odds.

Waiting on God, according to Scripture, is not a passive, vacuous state but rather an active process of asking, seeking and engaging with his Spirit.

Prayer without action is just religion in hiding.

God uses young people again and again to help restore and shape the destiny of nations...Young people stand at the heart of the salvation story.

Prayer can detonate mission.

I am convinced, however, that our constant activity is fruitless without first making that humble act of kneeling to pray. I am convinced that prayer is not only our greatest privilege, but also our greatest source of power.

intercession is impossible until we allow the things that break God's heart to break our hearts as well.

In prayer we inhale as God breathes his new life into us, and then in evangelism we exhale to breathe God's life upon a dying world.

Inevitably, the Enemy will do anything to divorce prayer and proclamation - to stop the evangelist praying and the intercessor evangelising. Why? Because the two combined are explosive!

A prayer room is a place where we can experience peace so that we can make peace later. A place where we can accept forgiveness so that we can live our lives as priests at work. A place where we receive our Father's acceptance so that we can love even those who laugh at us later in the day.

It will also challenge attitudes that subjugate women in ways that he himself clearly and consistently redressed.

The most powerful thing that can happen in the place of prayer is that you yourself become the prayer. You leave the prayer room as Jesus's hands and feet on earth. This is what it means to pray continually: to see with the eyes of Jesus and to hear with his ears with every waking moment.