Quotes from Chris Fabry

About what you want. The goal of prayer is to change your own heart, to want what He wants, to the glory of God.

Think you'll find that when you let Him, God is a good defense attorney.

Prayer was talking and listening and being excited to spend time with someone who loves you.

It seems to me there are times when you have to act and times when you have to wait, but the hardest times are those when you want to do one but you have to do the other and you're not sure which is the best.

Prayer changes the person who prays.

But when people age, they're not looking for a cure as much as they are for encouragement to continue. Our work here is not about curing. It's about the dignity of each person wheeled from breakfast back to their room.

God does hear what we pray. You don't need a megaphone or a million people to get His attention. But the point of prayer is not to get what we want. Prayer changes the person who prays.

Wrap your heart around that the next time you go through a struggle," Clara said. "The goal of prayer is not to change God's mind about what you want. The goal of prayer is to change your own heart, to want what He wants, to the glory of God.

If . . . My people who are called by My name humble themselves, pray and seek My face, and turn from their evil ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.

God has a way of working on His own timetable. And it usually is a lot different from ours.

It's funny how aimless a person can feel at times, even when they know God is in control.

Prayer, at its most basic level, was surrender. Like Jesus in the garden, saying, "Not My will, but Yours, be done." The ironic thing was, when a person surrendered their will, they got God's, and then they received what they were really looking for all along. This was what she believed.