Malcolm Boyd Quotes

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.

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

How do we find the Lord? I believe we have to seek Him in simple things. I believe we have to seek Him in personal prayer. I believe we must seek Him in personal service. I believe we seek and find Jesus when we follow His example.

Prayer no longer seems like an activity to me; it has become the continuing language of the relationship I believe God designed to fulfill a human life.

We cannot really know God if we do not pray.

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.

Mine is just a simple old human story - of one person trying, with great rigor and discipline, to comprehend her personal relationship with divinity.

One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving God a chance to manifest. In centering prayer there are moments of peace that give the psyche a chance to realize that God may not be so bad after all. God has a chance to be himself for a change.

If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine.

I'm very close with my higher power. I have a very strong connection with it.

Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God.

Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer.

I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.

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

I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.

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.

In my case, I'm in touch with God in good times and bad. I don't use God as a means of favour. And I can't do business with him - the very thought is bizarre.

If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about 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.

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

In order to see Jesus, we first need to let him look at us!

The essence of meditation is a period of time set aside to contemplate the Lord, listen to Him, and allow Him to permeate our spirits.

Your life is going to be determined by your prayer life.

We need prayer to understand God's love for us. If we really mean to pray and want to pray we must be ready to do it now. These are only the first steps towards prayer but if we never make the first step with determination, we will not reach the last one: the presence of God

No one who has had a unique experience with prayer has a right to withhold it from others.