Believe Quote by Philip Yancey

Some people think prayer is telling God what to do. I don't think that's the case.

— John Shelby Spong

The trouble with nearly everybody who prays is that he says 'Amen' and runs away before God has a chance to reply. Listening to…

— Frank Laubach

Prayer is more like listening than anything else...being quiet in God's presence, waiting on God until we know what to do.

— David Roper

Countless people pray far more than they know. Often they have such a "stained-glass" image of prayer that they fail to recognize what they…

— Richard J. Foster

Prayer doesn't work because someone out there is listening, it works because someone in here is listening. I've paid attention. I've pictured what I…

— Adam Savage

Those who pray from the heart do not think about the prayer they are saying, but about the God to whom they pray.

— Saint Francis de Sales

Being listened to and being heard is an experience that doesn't happen terribly often. To listen compassionately or nonjudgmentally to another person - not…

— Gabriel Byrne

Some prayers are followed by silence because they are wrong, others because they are bigger than we can understand.

— Oswald Chambers

The prayer of listening makes things simple but it also makes us vulnerable, and that is frightening. Listening makes us open to Christ, the…

— Benedict Groeschel

Prayer is so mighty an instrument that no one ever thoroughly mastered all its keys. They sweep along the infinite scale of man's wants…

— Hugh Miller

Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude - an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God.

— Arthur W. Pink

Some people think that prayer just means asking for things, and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for, they think the…

— Gerald Vann