Teyonah Parris Quotes

Over the years, my relationship with God has changed my life for the better - it's grown me up, given me a sense of purpose, and grounded me in my identity.

My prayer life and my connection with God are on the highest level.

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.

I've received a lot of positive feedback from both the secular and Christian markets. People seem to be receiving it with open arms and hearts, and are interested in the stories I want to share about my relationship with God and my faith.

Whether we call it religion or faith, we all battle for a balanced integrated soul.

We are all on a journey of faith, and we have to polish that faith.

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

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

I spent a couple years just earnestly praying, asking the question that I don't think we ask enough: 'God what do you want to do with me?' Really getting into our prayer closet, seeking His heart, asking what He wants to do in our lives.

Your soul is between you and God.

I was raised as a Christian but the transaction has to be made by yourself - you and God - at some point.

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.

We must first pray, that God would make us wise; before we can wish, he would make us happy.

My guru said that when he suffers, it brings him closer to God. I have found this, too.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

I can't really connect with things unless they are spiritual in nature, so I have to make acting spiritual for myself, and each role a spiritual journey for me.

A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.

Darkness is the only path to light. It is not our wonderful gifts that make us closer to God: it's using our garbage to transform ourselves. This is the key that unlocks the door that opens to God.

Give yourself entirely to God, enter and hide in the hidden ground of your soul.

I'm walking this walk, and my life has nothing to do with my perception of the world. It's all God! How do I function within His plan?

There is a Mount Sinai for every child of God if he only knows where to find it.

Over the years as I went through a lot more things, I've gotten closer and closer to God as far as praying a lot more, being into the Word.

For my future I have no concern, and as a true philosopher, I never would have any, for I know not what it may be: as a Christian, on the other hand, faith must believe without discussion, and the stronger it is, the more it keeps silent.

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

We are all in Christ's energy. We are all in the divine plan. We are all on the sacred journey, if you want to put it into some very spiritual words. And I like to sing about it, so that's what I do.