Oswald Chambers Quotes

True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is far deeper than that - it is spiritual transaction with the Creator of Heaven and Earth.

Prayer is simply talking to God like a friend and should be the easiest thing we do each day.

It's very important to have that prayer life. It's very important to communicate always.

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

Prayer is spiritual communication between man and God, a two-way relationship in which man should not only talk to God but also listen to Him. Prayer to God is like a child's conversation with his father. It is natural for a child to ask his father for the things he needs.

From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us; the hearing of the word and prayer.

Do not neglect secret prayer, for it is the soul of religion.

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

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 is simply coming into the presence of God. Because when you come into the presence of God, even the things you don't have matter a lot less.

The greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect understanding with God, and that alters my view of actual things.

The great call for the Church is to not just be concerned about right or wrong behavior, which is moral life, but about communion with God, which is mystical life.

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

We look upon prayer simply as a means of getting things for ourselves, but the biblical purpose of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.

At the profoundest depths in life, men talk not about God but with Him.

Prayer is - loving conversation with the One who has invited us into His embrace.

Is the Son of God praying in me, or am I dictating to Him?... Prayer is not simply getting things from God, that is a most initial form of prayer; prayer is getting into perfect communion with God. If the Son of God is formed in us by regeneration, He will press forward in front of our common sense and change our attitude to the things about which we pray.

Prayer is the opening of the heart to God as to a friend. Not that it is necessary in order to make known to God what we are, but in order to enable us to receive Him. Prayer does not bring God down to us, but brings us up to Him.

Only in prayer can we learn to love God with all our heart, mind and soul.

My prayers, my God, flow from what I am not; I think thy answers make me what I am.

Jesus did not have a value for prayer for prayer's sake. He had a value for the intimate communion between God and man.

Not a lot of individuals get to refer to the Lord in their prayers as 'Dude', but he's doing a new thing with me.

I say three prayers every night to make sure that God knows I thank him so much.

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

Prayer is man's greatest power!