Henri Nouwen Quotes

How do you pray? Take the gospel of each day and spend ten minutes with it. Read it, and read it again. Walk into the world with the gospel in your heart.

It is a good thing to let prayer be the first business of the morning and the last of the evening.

Each morning and night I get down on my knees and thank God for my life and ask Him to make me grateful all the time instead of just most of the time.

Be constantly committed to prayer or to reading [Scripture]; by praying, you speak to God, in reading, God speaks to you.

To pray well is the better half of study.

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 don't necessarily have to be religious to pray.

Prayer is where the action is.

I know that I pray a lot, and I take time for myself.

I pray and meditate every morning for anywhere between 15 to 50 minutes.

I pray and meditate first thing in the morning.

Over the years, I've become accustomed to the quiet of that morning meal, a time when I devote myself completely to my faith.

I do devotion in the morning. I pray and I read the word.

Think of God more often than thou breathest.

Read the Bible daily. Make it part of your everyday business to read and meditate on some portion of God's Word. Gather your manna fresh every morning. Choose your own seasons and hours. Do not scramble over and hurry your reading. Give your Bible the best, and not the worst, part of your time. But whatever plan you pursue, let it be a rule of your life to visit the throne of grace and the Bible every day.

[Prayer] takes no time, but it occupies all our time.

I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention.

The Christian will find his parentheses for prayer even in the busiest hours of life.

The first requirement for prayer is silence. People of prayer are people of silence.

Let us pray, and as we pray, let us make room for Jesus in our hearts.

Prayer is the thermometer of grace.

Ten minutes praying is better than a year's murmuring.

Prayer should not be merely an act, but an attitude of life.

No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.

Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of time.