Charles R. Swindoll Quotes

Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with Him who we know loves us. The important thing is not to think much but to love much and so do that which best stirs you to love. Love is not great delight but desire to please God in everything.

For me, prayer is not so much me setting out a shopping list of requests for God to consider as it is a way of 'keeping company with God.'

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

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

You can't fake it when you're alone with God, you know.

Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.

Solitude is very different from a 'time-out' from our busy lives. Solitude is the very ground from which community grows. Whenever we pray alone, study, read, write, or simply spend quiet time away from the places where we interact with each other directly, we are potentially opened for a deeper intimacy with each other.

The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me, and attracted me.

Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.

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

Trying to describe what I do in prayer would be like telling the world how I make love to my wife.

One of the best gifts we can give ourselves is time alone with God.

Love happens when you are ready to share with another human being. Prayer happens when you are ready to share with God.

Faith is not a distant view, but a warm embrace of Christ.

Let's dare to enter into an intimate relationship with God without fear, trusting that we will receive love and always more love.

Only through love can we obtain communion with God.

Anything you say from your heart to God is a prayer.

I love you. You are closest to my heart, closer than any other human being. You are my extension. You are my prayer. You are my belief in God. For better or worse you inherit me.

That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth.

Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer.

Love? Be it man. Be it woman. It must be a wave you want to glide in on, give your body to it, give your laugh to it, give, when the gravelly sand takes you, your tears to the land. To love another is something like prayer and can't be planned, you just fall into its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief.

To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them, make offerings to them - these nature spirits who call us here - sealing our fate with each other, celebrating our love.

I'm a true believer in prayer, a big believer in prayer.

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.

Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.