Quotes about Communion
Prayer is not getting things from God. That is a most initial stage; prayer is getting into perfect communion with God: I tell Him what I know He knows in order that I may get to know it as He does.
- Oswald Chambers
Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you.
- E Stanley Jones
...Prayer is not always petition, sometimes it is just communion. It is the exquisite ministry of friendship.
- John Henry Jowett
Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.
- Teresa of Avila
The neglect of prayer is a grand hindrance to holiness.
- John Wesley
Real prayer is communion with God.
- AW Pink
Prayer in its highest form is agonizing soul sweat.
- Leonard Ravenhill
The true believer can no more live without prayer, than without food day by day.
- George Whitefield
It is not always those who have the most eminent gifts who are the most successful laborers for God. It is generally those who keep up closest communion with Christ and are most constant in prayer.
- JC Ryle
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
Avail yourself of the greatest privilege this side of heaven. Jesus Christ died to make this communion and communication with the Father possible.
- Billy Graham
Abiding fully means praying much.
- Andrew Murray