Desire Quote by Croft M. Pentz

Prayer is not getting man's will done in heaven, but getting God's will done on earth. It is not overcoming God's reluctance but laying…

— Richard Chenevix Trench

Prayer is not an agency by which my will is to be accomplished upon the earth. The purpose of prayer is to get God's…

— Chuck Smith

Prayer is not a convenient device for imposing our will upon God, or bending his will to ours, but the prescribed way of subordinating…

— John Stott

Prayer is the conduit through which power from heaven is brought to earth.

— Ole Hallesby

Prayer is fundamentally a transformation of will, a lifting of the heart and will to God.

— Peter Kreeft

Prayer is an effort of will.

— Oswald Chambers

The purpose of prayer is emphatically not to bend God's will to ours, but rather to align our will to his.

— John Stott

Prayer is a specific divine appointment, an ordinance of Heaven, whereby God purposes to carry out His gracious designs on earth and to execute…

— Edward McKendree Bounds

The basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God's will to mine, but to mold my will into His.

— Timothy Keller

Prayer lays hold of God's plan and becomes the link between His will and its accomplishment on earth. Amazing things happen, and we are…

— Elisabeth Elliot

Prayer is a new, gracious, lasting will of the soul united and fast-bound to the will of God by the precious and mysterious working…

— Julian of Norwich

Prayer is our invitation to God to intervene in the affairs of earth. It is our request for Him to work His ways in…

— Myles Munroe