David Jeremiah Quotes

I hit my knees and I went to him with that and I said God I want to do what you want. I don't want sports to be an idol in my life.

Sin keeps a man from prayer, and prayer keeps a man from sin.

Lord I disbelieve - help thou my unbelief.

A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

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

I think one thing is that prayer has become more useful, interesting, fruitful, and... almost involuntary in my life.

Too often the word 'prayer' induces guilt because we don't do enough of it. After all, I've never met anyone who said they pray too much! All of us fall short. And we often feel like our prayers fall flat.

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

Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer.

As we regularly spend time reading God's Word and talking to Him in prayer, we put ourselves in position for Him to do things in our lives we could never do on our own.

As you read or listen to God's Word and spend time talking to Him in prayer, your spirit will eventually become stronger than your flesh.

My 12th was my most Christian and most boring year of my life. Try as I did, day after day, to cling to righteousness, I was washed down in suds of sinful surroundings.

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

After 'The Hurt & The Healer', we kind of hit a wall. I grew up in a somewhat legalistic church and it taught me that faith is enough, but here's three more things left just in case. There's always things left to do to be closer to God.

You can't just say, 'God help me,' and he's there. It takes a little bit more work on the part of the individual, I think.

I pray every morning and night before bed.

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

Three kinds of souls, three prayers: 1) I am a bow in your hands, Lord. Draw me, lest I rot. 2) Do not overdraw me, Lord. I shall break. 3) Overdraw me, Lord, and who cares if I break.

Shall I give you yet another reason why you should pray? I have preached my very heart out. I could not say any more than I have said. Will not your prayers accomplish that which my preaching fails to do? Is it not likely that the Church has been putting forth its preaching hand but not its praying hand? Oh dear friends! Let us agonize in prayer.

If we are to be just like Jesus, we must have regular time of talking to God and listening to his Word.

I am always struggling in finding time to daily grow in my faith. If you are not in the Word or focusing on Christ, or into prayer, you can't help but slip at times.

Do you wish to grow in grace and be a holy Christian? Then never forget the value of prayer.

God delights in our temptations and yet hates them. He delights in them when they drive us to prayer; he hates them when they drive us to despair.

The men that will change the colleges and seminaries here represented are the men that will spend the most time alone with God... It takes time for the fires to burn. It takes time for God to draw near and for us to know that He is there. It takes time to assimilate His truth.