Neal A. Maxwell Quotes

I ought to pray as much as God's on my mind, because then I'd pray a lot. All I can tell you is God is real, and so that infuses everything.

Whatever it is that can help to bring God close is something to be revered.

Never be too proud to get down on your knees and pray.

As for our great King, when we venture into His presence, let us have a purpose there. Let us beware of playing at praying; it is insolence toward God.

Many Christians have so busied themselves with programs and activities that they no longer know how to be silent and meditate on God's word or recognize the mysteries that are in the Person of Christ.

Prayer is not passive. It takes a big man to pray - and to admit that he prays.

The more sanctified a person is the more heavily weighted his prayer time is in adoration.

We should go into His presence as a child goes to his father. We do it with reverence and godly fear, of course, but we should go with a childlike confidence and simplicity.

If you're looking for Jesus Then get on your knees

Our Father and Our God, unto thee, O Lord we lift our souls.

I meditate on God's life and I read the scriptures. I read something about Him, go through it and spend a lot of time by myself.

You're not gonna get through life without being worshipful or devoted to something. You're either devoted to your job, or to your desires. So the best way to spend your life is to try to be devoted to prayer, to Allah.

We should give the Lord the excellence He deserves in everything we do.

The greatest news that I could ever say is that Jesus is Lord and Savior of my life. He is my friend. He is with me wherever I go. I'm so delighted to continue to grow in my relationship to Jesus.

Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.

Mine is just a simple old human story - of one person trying, with great rigor and discipline, to comprehend her personal relationship with divinity.

Prayer is talking with God. God knows your heart and is not so concerned with your words as He is with the attitude of your heart.

The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.

I'm a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I'm even afraid of it - it's a learned affectation and it's just stuck on me like decals. Now I pray for humility because that comes from inside out.

I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center point of my life, really, since I was a child, but at 16 years of age, I fully surrendered my life over to Christ. At that point, as a teenager, I began to grasp the concept of Christ's true love and forgiveness.

I pray every night, sometimes long prayers about a lot of things and a lot of people, but I don't talk about it or brag about it because that's between God and me, and I'm no better than anybody else in God's sight.

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

I did my holy communion, and it was amazing how quickly the stories of the Bible and God and Jesus got under my skin.

Through prayer, fasting, and studying, God will answer.

Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.