Don't ever hesitate to take to [God] whatever is on your heart. He already knows it anyway, but He doesn't want you to bear its pain or celebrate its joy alone.
Prayer is not monologue, but dialogue; God's voice is its most essential part. Listening to God's voice is the secret of the assurance that He will listen to mine.
If we knew how much God loved us and was for us, we’d talk to Him all day long.
When we pray, we open the door for God to come into our problems and situations and work on them.
If you prayed as much as you worry, you'd have nothing to worry about.
Pray that God will open the doors you can't open and close the doors that need to be closed.
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
To be friends with God means to pray with simplicity, like children talking to their parents.
It is impossible for a believer, no matter what his experience, to keep right with God if he will not take the trouble to spend time with God. Spend plenty of time with him; let other things go, but don't neglect Him.
Time for solitude. God, I ask you to remake my heart. Fill it with what You love. Remove from it what You don’t. And mend what I’ve broken.
Be much alone with God, and take time to get thoroughly acquainted. Converse over everything with Him. Unburden yourself wholly -every thought, feeling, wish, plan, doubt- to Him...He wants not merely to be on good terms with you, but to be intimate.
The universe is wired with the electricity of God, & each of us is a lamp. It doesn't matter the size or shape of the lamp; it only matters that the lamp is plugged in. With every prayer, every thought of forgiveness, every meditation, every act of love, we plug in. The more of us who plug in, to more the darkness of the world will be cast from our midst. Today, let's all increase love's wattage!
To pray without expectation is to misunderstand the whole concept of prayer and relationship with God.
There comes a moment when you must quit talking to God about the mountain in your life and start talking to the mountain about your God. You proclaim His power. You declare His sovereignty. You affirm His faithfulness. You stand on His Word. You cling to His promises.
The Spirit of prayer makes us so intimate with God that we scarcely pass through an experience before we speak to Him about it, either in supplication, in sighing, in pouring out our woes before Him, in fervent requests, or in thanksgiving and adoration.
Prayer at its highest is a two-way conversation - and for me the most important part is listening to God's replies.
As I make goals for this year... Jesus, let your thoughts become my thoughts and bend my will to Your will.
If prayer is you talking to God, then intuition is God talking to you.
God save us from living in comfort while sinners are sinking into hell!
Thy way, not mine, O Lord, however dark it be; lead me by thine own hand; choose out the path for me.
Use me, God. Show me how to take who I am, who I want to be, and what I can do, and use it for a purpose greater than myself.
At times we can be self-absorbed. Lord, help us to open our hearts to others and to serve those who are most vulnerable.
I fear that for the most part people are worshiping worship rather than worshiping God and communing with Him.
Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul's language.
There are some people who, in order not to pray use as an excuse the fact that life is so hectic that it prevents us from praying. This cannot be. Prayer does not demand that we interrupt our work, but that we continue working as if it were a prayer. It is not necessary to always be in meditation, nor to consciously experience the sensation that we are talking to God, no matter how nice that would be. What matters is being with Him, living in Him, in His will. To love with a pure heart, to love everybody, especially to live the poor, is a twenty-four hour prayer.
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