Quotes about Relationship
God does not exist to answer our prayers but by our prayers we come to discern the mind of God.
- Oswald Chambers
We look upon prayer as a means of getting things for ourselves The Bible idea of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.
- Oswald Chambers
When my children do wrong I ache to hear their stumbling requests for forgiveness. I'm sure our heavenly Father aches even more deeply to hear from us.
- Anonymous
Whenever the insistence is on the point that God answers prayer we are off the track. The meaning of prayer is that we get hold of God not of the answer.
- Oswald Chambers
Our understanding of God is the answer to prayer getting things from God is God's indulgence of us. When God stops giving us things He brings us into the place where we can begin to understand Him.
- Oswald Chambers
The greatest blessing of prayer is not receiving the answer but being the kind of person God can trust with His answer.
- Anonymous
The spirit of prayer is the fruit and token of the Spirit of adoption.
- John Newton
Our relationship with each other is the criterion the world uses to judge whether our message is truthful - Christian community is the final apologetic.
- Francis Schaeffer
Man, made in the image of God, has a purpose - to be in relationship to God, who is there. Man forgets his purpose and thus he forgets who he is and what life means.
- Francis Schaeffer
Effective prayer is the fruit of a relationship with God, not a technique for acquiring blessings.
- DA Carson
Humans alone are created as rational beings in the image of God, capable of a relationship with God and given by him the capacity to understand the universe in which they live.
- John Lennox
True obedience is the refusal to compromise in any regard our relationship with God, regardless of the consequences.
- AW Tozer