The impact of prayer

“Converting our unceasing thinking into unceasing prayer moves us from a self-centered monologue to a God-centered dialogue.”
(Henry Nouwen)

“You cannot pray for someone and hate them at the same time.”
(Billy Graham)

“Pray, and let God worry.”
(Martin Luther)

“The faithful discipline of prayer reveals to you that you are the blessed one and gives you the power to bless others.”
(Henri Nouwen)

“Prayer does not change God, but it changes the one who prays.”
(Søren Kierkegaard)

“Prayer does not condition God; prayer conditions us. Prayer does not win God to our view; it reveals God’s view to us.”
(Leonard Ravenhill)

The essence of prayer

“Prayer is an act of love.”
(Teresa of Ávila)

“Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.”
(Mother Teresa)

“Love God and you will always be speaking to him. The seed of love is growth in prayer.”
(Jean-Nicholas Grou)

“The key to prayer is simply praying.”
(Aiden. W. Tozer)

“Simplicity is the characteristic of all real prayer and nothing pleases God better.”
(Jean-Nicholas Grou)

“The core of all prayer is indeed listening, obediently standing in the presence of God.”
(Henri Nouwen)

“Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude—an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God.”
(Arthur W. Pink)

The interconnectedness of prayer and service

“Service and prayer can never be separated because service is prayer and prayer is service.”
(Henry Nouwen)

“If prayer leads us into a deeper unity with the compassionate Christ, it will always give rise to concrete acts of service.”
(Henry Nouwen)

“If you are to busy to pray. You are busier tan God wants you to be.”
(Wanda E. Brunstetter)

“Prayer without action grows into powerless pietism, and action without prayer degenerates into questionable manipulation.”
(Henry Nouwen)

The importance of prayer

“To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.”
(Martin Luther)

“Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work.”
(Oswald Chambers)

“When prayer is right, everything is right. For prayer will not allow anything to go wrong.”
(St. Theophan the Recluse)

“No human activity draws us more deeply into the heart of God than prayer.”
(Richard Foster)

“I would rather teach one man to pray than ten men to preach.” (Charles Spurgeon)