Quotes about Prayer

We receive His peace when we ask Him for it. We keep His peace by extending it to others. Those are the keys and there are no others.

I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.

Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.

Today I offer a prayer of forgiveness: forgive the pettiness of my ingratitude... the absence of profound thankfulness.

We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.

The Constitution was never meant to prevent people from praying, it's declared purpose was to protect their freedom to pray

Prayers are prophecies. They are the best predictors of your spiritual future. Who you become is determined by how you pray. Ultimately, the transcript of your prayers becomes the script of your life.

We pray as if God's chief objective is our personal comfort. It's not. God's chief objective is His glory.

Sometimes the power of prayer is the power to carry on. It doesn't always change your circumstances, but it gives you the strength to walk through them. When you pray through, the burden is taken off of your shoulders and put on the shoulders of Him who carried the cross to Calvary.

Finally, I learned that we shouldn't seek answers as much as we should seek God. We get overanxious. We try to microwave our own answers instead of trusting God's timing. But here's an important reminder: If you seek answers you won't find them, but if you seek God, the answers will find you. There comes a point after you have prayed through that you need to let go and let God. How? By resisting the temptation to manufacture your own answer to your own prayer.

Prayer is picking a fight with the Enemy. It's spiritual warfare. Intercession transports us from the sidelines to the front lines without going anywhere. And that is where the battle is won or lost. Prayer is the difference between us fighting for God and God fighting for us. But we can't just hit our knees. We also have to take a step, take a stand. And when we do, we never know what God will do next.

Imagination is the road less taken, but it is the pathway of prayer.