P Quotes
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“Prayer is not a waste of energy. It helps you to recharge your energy.”
Source: Prayer: An Antidote for the Inner Man
“Prayer is not a waste of time. It is a good reminder that God is in charge of the Universe. When you pray to Him, you will be fulfilled.”
Source: Prayer: An Antidote for the Inner Man
“Prayer is not a way of making use of God; prayer is a way of offering ourselves to God in order that He should be able to make use of us.”
“Prayer is not a way to get what we want to happen, like the remote control that comes with the television set. I think that prayer may be less about asking for the things we are attached to than it is about relinquishing our attachments in some way. It can take us beyond fear, which is an attachment, and beyond hope, which is another form of attachment. It can help us remember the nature of the world and the nature of life, not on an intellectual level but in a deep and experiential way. When we pray, we don't change the world, we change ourselves. We change our consciousness.”
“Prayer is not about asking what you want, but what God wants.”
“Prayer is not about changing God, but being willing to let God change us.”
Source: Breathing Under Water: Spirituality and the Twelve Steps
“Prayer is not about letting God know your will; it's about completely submitting to him. You die to yourself.”
“Prayer is not about the accuracy of the ritual, but about offering up one’s heart. It is not that God, or the world, needs one’s heart, but that we need to be able to offer… Prayer is the moment when we agree not to hide...
Sometimes I am surprised at what wells up inside me [when I pray]. I ask for things I did not know I wanted. I pray in words I am surprised are mine. I feel embarrassed, and then ask myself, before whom am I embarrassed? Myself? Surely not before God to whom I am saying nothing unknown.”
Source: Making Loss Matter
“Prayer is not adult letters written to Santa Claus, and God is not some parent-like figure up in the sky who's going to take care of us.”
“Prayer is not an act of worship merely, the bending of the knee on set occasions, and offering petitions in need. It is an attitude of soul, opening the life on the Godward side, and keeping free communication with the world of spirit.”
Source: The Art of Being a Good Friend: How to Bring Out the Best in Your Friends and in Yourself
“Prayer is not an agency by which my will is to be accomplished upon the earth. The purpose of prayer is to get God's will to be accomplished upon the earth, and so many times we ask and receive not because the motive behind our asking is really that of accomplishing my will rather than God's will.”
“Prayer is not an argument with God to persuade him to move things our way, but an exercise by which we are enabled by his Spirit to move ourselves his way.”
“Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life.”
Source: My Utmost for His Highest
“Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.”
Source: Gandhi on Non-violence
“Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. . . . . . . Prayer is the first and the last lesson in learning the noble and brave art of sacrificing self in the various walks of life culminating in the defence of one's nation's liberty and honour.”
“Prayer is not appointed for the furnishing of God with the knowledge of what we need, but it is designed as a confession to Him of our sense of the need. In this, as in everything, God's thoughts are not as ours. God requires that His gifts should be sought for. He designs to be honoured by our asking, just as He is to be thanked by us after He has bestowed His blessing.”
“Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine.”
Source: Amazing Grace
“Prayer is not asking God to do something, it's asking God to help YOU do something”
“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.”
Source: Gandhi: Selected Writings
“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”
Source: Gandhi: Selected Writings
“Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.”
Source: Mother Teresa: Essential Writings
“Prayer is not designed for the furnishing of God with the knowledge of what we need, but it is designed as a confession to him of our sense of need.”
“Prayer is not designed to inform God, but to give man a sight of his misery; to humble man's heart, to excite his desire, to inflame his faith, to animate his hope, to raise his soul from earth to heaven.”
“Prayer is not escape from but escape to, and the difference is important. When you take human form, you are not choosing to live in a prison, even one of Heaven’s design. Rather, you are choosing for a time to breathe the air of conflict, and taste the bitter herbs of higher learning. Prayer is an escape back to God’s own bosom, where the soul retreats not for pity but for rest.”
Source: The Angel's Guide to Taking Human Form
“Prayer is not ever thing, but everything is by prayer.”
“Prayer is not flight, prayer is power. Prayer does not deliver a man from some terrible situation; prayer enables a man to face and to master the situation.”
“Prayer is not for pleasure but for peace.”
“Prayer is not getting man's will done in heaven, but getting God's will done on earth. It is not overcoming God's reluctance but laying hold of God's willingness.”
“Prayer is not getting things from God. That is a most initial stage; prayer is getting into perfect communion with God: I tell Him what I know He knows in order that I may get to know it as He does.”
Source: Studies in the Sermon on the Mount: God's Character and the Believer's Conduct
“Prayer is not intended to change God's purpose, nor is it to move Him to form fresh purposes. God has decreed that certain events shall come to pass through the means He has appointed for their accomplishment.”
Source: The Sovereignty of God
“Prayer is not just for an individual — prayer is for everyone.”
“Prayer is not just getting ready for Christian service. Prayer is Christian service.”
“Prayer is not just something on our to-do list; it's the breath of our soul.”
“Prayer is not learned in a classroom but in the closet.”
“Prayer is not like a raincoat for a rainy day. It is like a body lotion that should be applied every day.”
Source: Prayer: An Antidote for the Inner Man
“Prayer is not logical, it is a mysterious moral working of the Holy Spirit.”
Source: Prayer: A Holy Occupation
“Prayer is not meant to always give us the answers we want. It is not the resting place upon which the scales of our faith and trust are balanced. It is not the reason for faith, but rather the result of a faith we already have.”
Source: Chasing Cinders
“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.”
“Prayer is not only asking, it is an attitude of heart that produces an atmosphere in which asking is perfectly natural, and Jesus says, "every one that asketh receiveth."”
“Prayer is not only for answers but a spiritual act.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Prayer is not optional for the Christian; it is required.”
Source: Let Us Pray: A Symposium on Prayer by Leading Preacher and Theologians
“Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.”
“Prayer is not so much a way to find God as a way of resting in him...who loves us, who is near to us.”
“Prayer is not so much about convincing God to do what we want God to do as it is about convincing ourselves to do what God wants us to do.”
Source: Becoming the Answer to Our Prayers: Prayer for Ordinary Radicals
“Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude - an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God.”
Source: Sovereignty of God
“Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God. Prayer is a confession of creature weakness, yes, of helplessness. Prayer is the acknowledgment of our need and the spreading of it before God.”
“Prayer is not so much the means whereby God's will is bent to man's desires, as it is that whereby man's will is bent to God's desires.”
“Prayer is not the answer. God is the answer. Prayer is the vehicle by which we reach God.”
“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 you want.”
“Prayer is not to be used as a confessional, to cancel sin. Such an error would impede true religion. Sin is forgiven only as it is destroyed by Christ - Truth and Light.”
Source: Science And Health