Jim Elliot Quotes

It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.

I speak to God every day.

I'm Catholic and Mum taught me the comfort that you can get from going to church. But I'm an a la carte Catholic. I love all the pomp and ceremony of it.

Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?

I am a pastor so I eat and breathe the Church.

A lot of praying helped me a lot.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.

Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.

Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.

If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.

I gave my heart to the Lord, and I remember the incident vividly. The Lord spoke to me. I know that sounds funny. It was not an audible voice or anything of that nature.

I began to pray those same fervent prayers, lying in bed at night, hoping to see a scroll unrolled from the ceiling with a message from God just for me.

When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic.

never had interviews with the gods or were in any degree under the inspiration of Heaven.

There is a very easy remedy. That is to pray ourselves.

In my opinion, it is a mistake to expect in prayer a response from God. Often, God's response is outside prayer. And often, we do not link up an outside response with the effort we put into prayer.

Oh, my brothers and sisters in Christ, if sinners will be damned, at least let them leap to hell over our bodies; and if they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees, imploring them to stay, and not madly to destroy themselves. If hell must be filled, at least let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let not one go there unwarned and unprayed for.

I am proud to be a Christian. I believe not only as a Christian, but as a scientist as well. A wireless device can deliver a message through the wilderness. In prayer the human spirit can send invisible waves to eternity, waves that achieve their goal in front of God.

Prayer can never be in excess.

God has willed that we should seek and find God's living Word in the testimony of other Christians, in the mouths of human beings.

Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.

Faith is to the soul what life is to the body. Prayer is to faith what breath is to the body. How a person can live and not breathe is past my comprehension, and how a person can believe and not pray is past my comprehension too.

Those to whom his word was revealed were always alone in some remote place, like Moses. There wasn't anyone else around when Mohammed got the word either. Mormon Joseph Smith and Christian Scientist, Mary Baker Eddy, had exclusive audiences with God. We have to trust them as reporters--and you know how reporters are. They'll do anything for a story.

Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.