George Washington Carver Quotes

The real end of prayer is not so much to get this or that single desire granted, as to put human life into full and joyful conformity with the will of God.

The Holy Spirit makes us aware of our lack of holiness to stimulate us to deeper yearning and striving for holiness. But Satan will attempt to use the Holy Spirit’s work to discourage us.

If I were Satan and my ultimate goal was to thwart God's kingdom and purposes, one of my main strategies would be to get churchgoers to ignore the Holy Spirit.

In working with people across the country and around the world, I've come to know that most of us go through times that re-route our prayer life.

We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.

Little by little he came to recognize the difference between the spirits that agitated him, one from the enemy and one from God.

The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.

At times I have long conversations with God. Sometimes I ask questions. I admit that there are also times when I let out my frustrations, fears, and anxieties in less than honorable ways. No matter what I pray about or how I pray about it, the result I always get is comfort.

What most of all hinders heavenly consolation is that you are too slow in turning yourself to prayer.

I personally claim no special insight into Satan's methods, but I have at times been able to identify his influence and his actions in my life and in the lives of others. When I was on my first mission, Satan sought to divert me from my future path and, if possible, to destroy my usefulness in the Lord's work.

The life of the individual believer, his personal salvation, and personal Christian graces have their being, bloom and fruitage in prayer.

Whatever happens at the end of the day, as long as I glorify His name, that's what it's all about.

I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.

One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving God a chance to manifest. In centering prayer there are moments of peace that give the psyche a chance to realize that God may not be so bad after all. God has a chance to be himself for a change.

God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And his children shall be filled if they will only hunger and thirst after what he offers.

Some people think that prayer just means asking for things, and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for, they think the whole thing is a fraud.

You need to have time to really hear God.

We can never know for certain where our prayers are likely to go, nor from whom the answers will come. Just when we think we are at our nearest to God, we could be assisting the Devil.

Our real work is prayer. What good is the cold iron of our frantic little efforts unless first we heat it in the furnace of our prayer? Only heat will diffuse heat.

Don't look for approval in what everyone else is doing; look for approval from Almighty God.

And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.

I think of prayer as a spiritual lifeline back to where I most want to be.

Let us pray that the destruction of civilization may be averted, that Christ may live and reign, and that Communism and the power of Satan on Earth be brought to naught.

Until you pray, God cannot work.

I talk to God every day. He's very real for me.