Henri Nouwen Quotes

I open my mind and allow the Holy Spirit to come in.

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.

I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time- waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God- it changes me.

I speak to God every day.

Pray in faith.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

The key is - I'll say the key - number one, I pray every day.

Until you pray, God cannot work.

I pray every day and think everybody should.

As you pray for the Holy Spirit to make you aware of thoughts that come into your mind that don't line up with God's Word, you'll begin to realize when those thoughts come and you can renew your mind with the Word.

I meditate and pray multiple times a week to guide myself with divine clarity.

You can't be a spiritual adviser and not pray.

Trying harder doesn’t work for me. Slowly I’ve learned to pray for God’s help and He has become my greatest love and desire.

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

Cease to pray and thou will begin to sin. Prayer is not only a means to prevail for mercy but also to prevent sin.

It is the Spirit alone that can mortify sin; he is promised to do it, and all other means without him are empty and vain. How shall he, then, mortify sin that has not the Spirit? A man may easier see without eyes, speak without a tongue, than truly mortify one sin without the Spirit.

Prayer is the window that God has placed in the walls of our world. Leave it shut and the world is a cold, dark house. But throw back the curtains and see His light. Open the window and hear His voice. Open the window of prayer and invoke the presence of God in your world.

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

God works in his elect in two ways: inwardly, by his Spirit; outwardly, by his Word.

Seek to know God in your closets, call upon him in the fields. Follow the directions of the Book of Mormon, and pray over, and for your families, your cattle, your flocks, your herds, your corn, and all things that you possess [see Alma 34:18-27]; ask the blessing of God upon all your labors, and everything that you engage in.

When we pray to God with entire assurance, it is Himself who has given us the spirit of prayer.

Prayer is the practice of drawing on the grace of God. Don't say, "I will endure this until I can get away and pray." Pray now - draw on the grace of God in your moment of need. Prayer is the most normal and useful thing; it is not simply a reflex action of your devotion to God. We are very slow to learn to draw on God's grace through prayer.

I would like to ask you a question: how many of you pray to the Holy Spirit every day? Probably few, but we must satisfy this desire of Jesus and pray every day to the Holy Spirit, so that he opens our heart towards Jesus.

Prayer, like faith, obtains promises, enlarges their operation, and adds to the measure of their results.

I don't want my life to be explainable without the Holy Spirit.