Convincing Quote by Shane Claiborne

“Prayer is less about trying to get God to do something we want God to do and more about getting ourselves to do what…

— Shane Claiborne

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

— John Shelby Spong

Prayer is not an argument with God to persuade him to move things our way, but an exercise by which we are enabled by…

— Leonard Ravenhill

Prayer is not a means for us to persuade a reluctant God to do something which is against His better judgment. Prayer, rather is…

— John F Walvoord

For me, in my Christian belief, prayer is not an opportunity to manipulate God into doing what you want him to. Prayer is an…

— Francis Collins

I am deeply convince that the necessity of prayer, and to pray unceasingly, is not as much based on our desire for God as…

— Henri Nouwen

“Prayer is not an attempt to get God to agree with you or provide for your selfish desires, but that it is both an…

— John F. MacArthur

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

Prayer is not the cunning art of using God, subjecting Him to one's selfish ends in an effort to get out of Him what…

— F. Huegel

Prayer is not asking God to do something, it's asking God to help YOU do something

— Dennis Prager

Prayer, in it's simplest form, is finding out what God wants to do and then asking Him to do it.

— Graham Cooke

We are trying not so much to make God listen to us as to make ourselves listen to him; we are trying not to…

— William Barclay