Heart Quote by John Piper

If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.

— T. S. Eliot

We ought to act with God in the greatest simplicity, speak to Him frankly and plainly, and implore His assistance in our affairs.

— Brother Lawrence

Once we learn to pray with our hearts, and not our lips ; we truly begin to have a conversation with God.

— Anonymous

Prayer is an earnest and familiar talking with God.

— John Knox

Our prayers should arise out of immersion in the Scripture. [We] speak only to the degree we are spoken to.

— Timothy Keller

We must speak to God as a friend speaks to his friend, servant to his master; now asking some favor, now acknowledging our faults,…

— Anonymous

The crisis of our prayer life is that our minds may be filled with ideas of God while our hearts remain far from him.

— Henri Nouwen

“For many of us prayer means nothing more than speaking with God. And since it usually seems to be a quite one-sided affair, prayer…

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

We should seek not so much to pray but to become prayer.

— Francis of Assisi

Prayer is a serious thing. We may be taken at our words.

— Dwight L. Moody

I want to talk about God in a literary way. But I think I would have a very hard time praying to God.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

We should recognize that the Lord will speak to us through the Spirit in His own time and in His own way.

— Dallin H. Oaks