Timothy Keller Quotes About Prayer

Quotes about: Prayer

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

  Timothy Keller

  Prayer, Mold, Purpose

  Timothy Keller (2013). “The Obedient Master”, p.14, Penguin

• Prayer gives us relief from the melancholy burden of self-absorption .

  Timothy Keller

  Prayer, Self, Giving

• God will only give you what you would have asked for if you knew everything he knows

  Timothy Keller

  God, Religious, Prayer

• Every single emotion you have should be processed in prayer.

  Timothy Keller

  Prayer, Emotion, Should

• The greatness of prayer is nothing but an extension of the greatness and glory of God in our lives To fail to pray, then, is not to merely break some religious rule - it is a failure to treat God as God. It is a sin against his glory

  Timothy Keller

  Religious, Prayer, Greatness

  Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.23, Penguin

• To pray is to accept that we are, and always will be, wholly dependent on God for everything.

  Timothy Keller

  God, Christian, Religious

  Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.81, Penguin

• Prayer turns theology into experience.

  Timothy Keller

  Prayer, Theology, Turns

  Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.54, Penguin

• A triune God would call us to converse with him . . . because he wants to share the joy he has. Prayer is our way of entering into the happiness of God himself.

  Timothy Keller

  Prayer, Joy, Entering

  Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.47, Penguin

• Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well, that our bad things will turn out for good, our good things cannot be taken from us, and the best things are yet to come.

  Timothy Keller

  Prayer, Powerful, Taken

  Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.50, Penguin

• It fits to glorify God - it not only fits reality, because God is infinitely and supremely praiseworthy, but it fits us as nothing else does. All the beauty we have looked for in art or faces or places - and all the love we have looked for in the arms of other people - is only fully present in God himself. And so in every action by which we treat him as glorious as he is, whether through prayer, singing, trusting, obeying, or hoping, we are at once giving God his due and fulfilling our own design.

  Timothy Keller

  God, Art, Prayer

  "Walking with God through Pain and Suffering".

• Prayer is continuing a conversation that God has started through his Word and his grace, which eventually becomes a full encounter with him.

  Timothy Keller

  Prayer, Grace, Encounters

  Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.35, Penguin

• We are so quick to tweet, Facebook, and Instagram but we treat prayer with a sense of delay?

  Timothy Keller

  Prayer, Delay, Instagram

• It is remarkable that in all of his writings Paul's prayers for his friends contain no appeals for changes in their circumstances.

  Timothy Keller

  Change, Bible, Christian

  Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.19, Penguin

• Prayer is both conversation and encounter with God.

  Timothy Keller

  Prayer, Encounters, Conversation

• Prayer is awe before an infinite force, and yet it's intimacy with a personal friend.

  Timothy Keller

  Prayer, Infinite, Intimacy

• Without immersion in God's words, our prayers may not be merely limited and shallow but also untethered from reality.

  Timothy Keller

  Prayer, Reality, May

  Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.43, Penguin

• A rich, vibrant, consoling, hard-won prayer life is the one good that makes it possible to receive all other kinds of goods rightly and beneficially. [Paul] does not see prayer as merely a way to get things from God but as a way to get more of God himself.

  Timothy Keller

  Prayer, Doe, Way

  Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.20, Penguin

• Prayer is a recognition of the greatness of our God.

  Timothy Keller

  Prayer, Greatness, Recognition

• Prayer is awe, intimacy, struggle-yet, the way to reality.

  Timothy Keller

  Prayer, Struggle, Reality

  Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.26, Penguin

• Prayer-though it is often draining, even an agony-is in the long term the greatest source of power that is possible.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Prayer, Powerful

  Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.88, Penguin

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

  Timothy Keller

  Prayer, Degrees, Scripture

  Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.40, Penguin

• The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Spiritual, Religious

  Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.21, Penguin

• The primary means-of-reviva l that everyone agrees upon is extraordinary prayer.

  Timothy Keller

  Prayer, Mean, Agree Upon

• Prayer can be simple, but it's not easy. Nothing great is.

  Timothy Keller

  Prayer, Simple, Easy

• There seems to be a human instinct for prayer. Swiss theologian Karl Barth calls it our 'incurable God-sickness.'

  Timothy Keller

  Prayer, Sickness, Instinct

  Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.29, Penguin

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