Quotes about Relationship
Jesus did not have a value for prayer for prayer's sake. He had a value for the intimate communion between God and man.
- Erwin McManus
Prayer is the thermometer of grace.
- Charles Spurgeon
Trying to describe what I do in prayer would be like telling the world how I make love to my wife.
- JI Packer
Prayer is never just an emergency flare or desperate anxious gamble. God's attention is not based on our performance but parental love.
- Timothy Keller
Prayer is simply talking to God like a friend and should be the easiest thing we do each day.
- Joyce Meyer
Prayer is a place where God and humans meet.
- Philip Yancey
Anything you say from your heart to God is a prayer.
- Anne Lamott
Other forms of relating to God that have unique value in connecting us to Him include contemplative prayer and centering prayer.
- Larry Crabb
True prayer is the trading of the heart with God.
- Charles Spurgeon
Prayer is continuing a conversation that God has started through his Word and his grace, which eventually becomes a full encounter with him.
- Timothy Keller
True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is a spiritual commerce with the Creator of heaven and earth.
- Charles Spurgeon
Watch your motive before God have no other motive in prayer than to know Him.
- Oswald Chambers