Max Lucado Quotes

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.

We must love prayer. It widens the heart to the point of making it capable of containing the gift that God makes of himself. Ask and seek, and your heart will be widened to welcome him and to keep him within itself.

Prayer is the breath of life to our soul; holiness is impossible without it

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

Prayer is the breath of the new creature.

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.

My hectic work schedule does not often permit me time to visit temples, but my conversations with God don't depend on idol worship. Inside my heart, I have developed and sustained a direct communication with Him.

It takes me forever to say my prayers these days, but I don't care, because this time around, I want to make sure God doesn't have to do any guesswork.

I've only paid lip service to a spiritual life.

I think I'm a spiritual person. I don't really go to church often when services are on, but I like going in when they are empty and quiet, and just sitting there and thinking for a little while.

As a Catholic, I find mindfulness helps me participate in my religion more wholeheartedly. If you are praying the rosary, participating in the rituals at Mass, or listening to the priest preach, you will actually be paying attention! Whatever your religion is, it can enhance the experience of participating in that religion.

I pray and I meditate every day. It can be a great, great asset.

I believe that God knows what each of us wants and needs. It's not necessary for us to make it to church on Sunday to reach Him. You can find Him anyplace. And if that sounds heretical, my source is pretty good: Matthew, Five to Seven, The Sermon on the Mount.

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

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

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

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.

Prayer is the little implement through which men reach; where presence is denied them.

No problem is too small for His attention nor so large that He cannot answer the prayer of faith. Prayer surely is the passport to spiritual power.

Prayer continues to provide power--spiritual power. Prayer continues to provide peace--spiritual peace.

If we ask of the saints how they achieved spiritual effectiveness, they are only able to reply that, insofar as they did it themselves, they did it by love and prayer.

. . . in the spiritual life you must practice. And the only way to practice is by trying to solve your problems with prayer. This develops your spiritual power and it also trains you to use that spiritual power in the most effective way.

It's not easy to sit and trust that in solitude God will speak to you - not as a magical voice but that God will let you know something gradually over the years. And in that word from God you will find the inner place from which to live your life. Solitude is where spiritual ministry begins. That's where Jesus listened to God. That's where we listen to God.

Prayer is not learned in a classroom but in the closet.

Prayer irrigates the fields of life with the waters which are stored up in the reservoirs of promise.