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Prayer Quotes by Jacques Ellul
- Prayer is not a discourse. It is a form of life, the life with God. That is why it is not confined to the moment…
- Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of creation. It makes history possible.
- For in a civilization which has lost the meaning of life, the most important thing a Christian can do is to live, and life, understood…
- When God picks out a man and speaks to him, it is to engage him in a work, an action. Nowhere in Scripture do we…
- Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of the creation. It makes history possible.
More Prayer Quotes
- When I immersed myself in prayer and united myself with all the Masses that were being celebrated all over the world at… — Mary Faustina Kowalska
- A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil… — Teresa of Avila
- In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- I don't know what heavy penance I would not have gladly undertaken rather than practice prayer. — Teresa of Avila
- The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or… — Teresa of Avila
- Prayer is not intended to change God's purpose, nor is it to move Him to form fresh purposes. God has decreed that… — Arthur W. Pink
- Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone… — Teresa of Avila
- Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without so great… — Teresa of Avila