Born Quote by Jim Cymbala

“Prayer cannot truly be taught by principles and seminars and symposiums. It has to be born out of a whole environment of felt need.”

— Jim Cymbala

Prayer is a privilege and the soul's sincere desire. We can move beyond routine and 'checklist' prayers and engage in meaningful prayer as we…

— David A. Bednar

Prayer is essentially a process by which ideals are enabled to become operative in our lives. It may be more than this, but it…

— Georgia Harkness

Prayer is not so much about convincing God to do what we want God to do as it is about convincing ourselves to do…

— Shane Claiborne

Prayer is not a painful effort to gain from God help in the varying needs of life. Prayer is the desire to possess God…

— Sadhu Sundar Singh

Prayer is a trade to be learned. We must be apprentices and serve our time at it. Painstaking care, much thought, practice and labour…

— Edward McKendree Bounds

Prayer is the very way God Himself has chosen for us to express our conscious need of Him and our humble dependence on Him.

— John Stott

If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer. Most of my struggles in the…

— Philip Yancey

Prayer gives us strength for great ideals, for keeping up our faith, charity, purity, generosity; prayer gives us strength to rise up from indifference…

— Pope John Paul II

“One of the greatest revelations I’ve had in recent years is that prayer is hard work. Prayer requires labor, striving, continuance, endurance, wrestling, and…

— David Jeremiah

“Prayer is the kind of exercise that can lead to discouragement if we’re not careful. Some of you reading this chapter are discouraged right…

— David Jeremiah

Prayer gives us light by which to see and to judge from God's perspective and from eternity. That is why you must not give…

— Pope John Paul II