George MacDonald Quotes

Prayer is the difference between the best we can do and the best God can do.

God won't answer 100% of the prayers we don't pray.

The man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks that he can instruct god how to put them right.

God always answers prayers. Sometimes it's 'yes.' Sometimes the answer is 'no.' Sometimes it's 'you gotta be kidding.

Every time I have had a breakthrough in my life, it has been because of Prayer

The most important lesson we can learn is how to pray. Prayers do not die, prayers live before God, and God's heart is set on them.

My love for prayer was an answer to prayer.

No one can believe how powerful prayer is and what it can effect, except those who have learned it by experience. Whenever I have prayed earnestly, I have been heard and have obtained more than I prayed for. God sometimes delays, but He always comes.

Every wish Is like a prayer--with God.

Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.

Prayer changes things. Prayer changes us. Prayer changes life. Sometimes an event has been manifested that needs to be stopped, midair. Don't pray just when you're in trouble. Pray every day. Surround yourself with prayer. You never know when you might need an extra miracle.

The privilege of prayer to me is one of the most cherished possessions, because faith and experience alike convince me that God himself sees and answers, and His answers I never venture to criticize. It is only my part to ask. If it were otherwise, I would not dare to pray at all.

To this day I always say my prayers on my knees 'cause I think maybe they get there sooner.

Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us.

Prayer may just be the most powerful tool mankind has.” ~Blink

Prayer is not about changing God, but being willing to let God change us.

Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.

God shapes the world by prayer.

I've never thought there was anything I could hope to get by praying for it.

We should still pray. We have no other authority but to pray.

I used to think I could shape the circumstances around me, but now I know Jesus uses circumstances to shape me.

You can delegate a lot of things, but you can't delegate PRAYER. I'd rather have one GOD idea than a thousand GOOD ideas.

Asking God for a specific thing will amount to limiting God to a specific answer.

When you embrace the mystery and open yourself to it, a new life is created, resistant to the old problems. You will notice at times that the new life isn't what you asked for. But asking for specific items or for particular events to occur isn't how I define prayer. I cannot guarantee that the orders you place with God will always be filled. Prayer is not a test of God, but a call for help to find your inner strength and talent.

When you meditate or pray... both are forms of meditation... you give up control and find the answer and you open yourself to receive God's gift, the universal force, or whatever that is.