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Prayer Quotes by Timothy Keller
- The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
- A triune God would call us to converse with him . . . because he wants to share the joy he has. Prayer is our…
- Prayer is our way of entering into the happiness of God himself
- Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well.
- It is remarkable that in all of his writings Paul's prayers for his friends contain no appeals for changes in their circumstances.
- A rich, vibrant, consoling, hard-won prayer life is the one good that makes it possible to receive all other kinds of goods rightly and beneficially.…
- Prayer-though it is often draining, even an agony-is in the long term the greatest source of power that is possible.
- The greatness of prayer is nothing but an extension of the greatness and glory of God in our lives To fail to pray, then, is…
- There seems to be a human instinct for prayer. Swiss theologian Karl Barth calls it our 'incurable God-sickness.'
- It fits to glorify God - it not only fits reality, because God is infinitely and supremely praiseworthy, but it fits us as nothing else…
- Every single emotion you have should be processed in prayer.
- The basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God's will to mine, but to mold my will into His.
- Prayer is both conversation and encounter with God.
- Prayer is a recognition of the greatness of our God.
- The goal of prayer is not just the sharing of our ideas, but also of ourselves.
- Our prayers should arise out of immersion in the Scripture. [We] speak only to the degree we are spoken to.
- The primary means-of-reviva l that everyone agrees upon is extraordinary prayer.
- Prayer gives us relief from the melancholy burden of self-absorption .
- Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well, that our bad things will turn out for good,…
- Prayer is continuing a conversation that God has started through his Word and his grace, which eventually becomes a full encounter with him.
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
- Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration… — C.S. Lewis
- 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
- I always give all the glory to God, but I do not forget that He gave me the privilege of ministering from… — Charles Spurgeon
- 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
- The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or… — Teresa of Avila
- Be creative. Don`t be worried about what you are doing - one has to do many things - but do everything creatively,… — Rajneesh
- I don't know what heavy penance I would not have gladly undertaken rather than practice prayer. — Teresa of Avila