James Green Somerville Quotes

I'm a true believer in prayer, a big believer in prayer.

I do believe in the power of prayer.

It's the most exciting thing to watch God work when I've asked him about something, to listen to him and watch him work. It's like this friendship, and it just grows and grows and grows and grows.

Humble prayer to our Heavenly Father, in deep faith in Jesus Christ, is essential to qualify us for the companionship of the Holy Ghost.

Nothing is more important to God than prayer in dealing with mankind. But it is likewise all-important to man to pray.

When I pray, I pray believing that God will speak to me and give me an answer to that prayer. That's what a calling is. If I pray, a calling means that I feel like I have a sense from God.

While the pulpit must hold to its unswerving loyalty to the Word of God, it must, at the same time, be loyal to the doctrine of prayer which that same Word illustrates and enforces upon mankind.

God does say He will graciously entertain our prayers. He says that if we exercise faith, and if our request is in accordance with His will, He will hear us.

For the life of me, I still don't understand why humans pray.

Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.

On Sunday morning, I'm not nervous... I can't wait to tell what God wants me to say.

We think when God speaks to us, there's going to be a boom out of Heaven or we're going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God's talking to us all the time. He's talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it's the Holy Spirit talking to us.

Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us.

Do I pray? Yes. Prayer is very important to me.

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.

It is only when the whole heart is gripped with the passion of prayer that the life-giving fire descends, for none but the earnest man gets access to the ear of God.

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

The Holy Spirit is our comforter, our teacher. That's why, in prayer, we can ask the Lord to open up Scripture and make it come alive to us, to open our understanding. He left his Spirit with us until we join him in Heaven.

Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.

The Old Testament teaches us that if we humble ourselves and pray, God will hear from heaven and heal our land. And the New Testament assures us that the fervent prayers of righteous men can make a difference.

In doing God's work, there is no substitute for praying. The men of prayer cannot be displaced with other kinds of men.

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

The Bible is not man's word about God, but God's word about man.

Prayer becomes more meaningful as we counsel with the Lord in all of our doings, as we express heartfelt gratitude, and as we pray for others.

I believe in prayer. It's the best way we have to draw strength from heaven.