John Selden Quotes

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.

The most effective prayers are usually the simple prayers.

You often feel that your prayers scarcely reach the ceiling; but, oh, get into this humble spirit by considering how good the Lord is, and how evil you all are, and then prayer will mount on wings of faith to heaven.

Prayer is talking with God. God knows your heart and is not so concerned with your words as He is with the attitude of your heart.

Our Father and Our God, unto thee, O Lord we lift our souls.

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

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

I pray every night, sometimes long prayers about a lot of things and a lot of people, but I don't talk about it or brag about it because that's between God and me, and I'm no better than anybody else in God's sight.

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.

The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.

Prayer is a thought, a belief, a feeling, arising within the mind of the one praying.

I believe that the greatest form of prayer is praise to God.

I talk to Allah, I pray to him.

Sometimes even on an hourly basis we need to keep praying and keep our peace in God and remind ourselves on the promises of God that never fails.

God does say He will graciously entertain our prayers. He says that if we exercise faith, and if our request is in accordance with His will, He will hear us.

Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.

I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.

Prayer is so complicated.

Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.

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.

All I know is that, thanks to a sort of habit which has always been ingrained in me, I have never, at any moment of my life, experienced the least difficulty in addressing myself to God as to a supreme Someone.

I pray everywhere and with all my heart.

The Our Father contains all possible petitions; we cannot conceive of any prayer not already contained in it. It is to prayer what Christ is to humanity.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.