Quotes about Communication
Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul.
— Hannah More
Three principles of prayer: 1. Keep it honest. 2. Keep it simple. 3. Keep it up.
— Nicky Gumbel
The discussion of prayer is so great that it requires the Father to reveal it, His firstborn Word to teach it, and the Spirit to enable us to think and speak rightly of so great a subject.
— Origen
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.
— Mother Teresa
Prayer can never be in excess.
— Charles Spurgeon
To pray is to listen, to move through my own chattering to God, to that place where I can be silent and listen to what God may have to say.
— Madeleine L'Engle
If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would be better than they are in the world: at least, we should be better enabled to bear them.
— John Owen
When you pray be sure that you listen as well as talk. You have things you want to say to God but He also has things He wants to say to you.
— Joyce Meyer
The Lord's Prayer reminds us that God longs for His people to communicate with Him, not just in church on Sunday, but wherever we are and whatever our need.
— David Jeremiah
As is the business of tailors to make clothes and cobblers to make shoes, so it is the business of Christians to pray.
— Martin Luther
If you have trouble hearing God speak, you are in trouble at the very heart of your Christian experience.
— Henry Blackaby
If we pray little, it is probably because we do not really believe that prayer accomplishes much at all.
— Wayne Grudem