Vincent McNabb Quotes

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

As I got older, I got closer to my faith and I got closer to Jesus, reading the Bible and living my life under God.

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

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

I'm thankful to have Jesus as my Savior. My relationship with God has always been one to where I'm talking to him all day, every day, about anything and everything. It's just a continuous ongoing conversation that I have with the Lord, and I feel like that's brought me closer to Him.

If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

For me, in my Christian belief, prayer is not an opportunity to manipulate God into doing what you want him to. Prayer is an opportunity to have a conversation with God to try to get in tune with what his will is.

Prayer is our essential lifeline to God's throne and heart.

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

I do believe in the power of prayer.

I spent six years in Bible study because I needed to get grounded. People really need to spend time in the Bible getting to know the God they claim to love.

O blessed Saviour, give me grace like Thee, to make Religion my first, and chiefest care, and devoutly to observe, all solemn times, and all holy Rites, which relate to Thy worship.

I'm living my life for an audience of one. I live my life to please God. And I believe if He's pleased, that people like my mother and my daddy, my grandparents, you know, my husband, my children, they'll be pleased.

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

You can see God from anywhere if your mind is set to love and obey Him.

Peace in this life is based upon faith and testimony. We can all find hope from our personal prayers and gain comfort from the scriptures. Priesthood blessings lift us and sustain us. Hope also comes from direct personal revelation, to which we are entitled if we are worthy.

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

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

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

The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.

Through prayer, fasting, and studying, God will answer.

It's impossible to be a good Christian. If you think it's easy to be a good Christian, then you're not really trying hard enough.

I committed my life to Christ, and that faith has been most important to me ever since.

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.

No praying, it spoils business.