David Jeremiah Quotes

Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.

In honesty you have to admit to a wise man that prayer is not for the wise, not for the prudent, not for the sophisticated. Instead it is for those who recognize that in face of their deepest needs, all their wisdom is quite helpless. It is for those who are willing to persist in doing something that is both childish and crucial.

I thought surrendering was a weakness; instead it's the strongest thing a man or a woman can ever do, to acknowledge our Creator who's in control of all things.

When our Lord says, we must be converted and become as little children, I suppose he means also, that we must be sensible of our weakness, comparatively speaking, as a little child.

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

Sleep is a daily reminder from God that we are not God. Once a day God sends us to bed like patients with a sickness. The sickness is a chronic tendency to think we are in control and that our work is indispensable. To cure us of this disease God turns us into helpless sacks of sand once a day.

It's impossible to lose your footing when you're on your knees.

God, find us on our knees because we know that when we get our knees, You extend Your powerful right hand.

It pleases our heavenly Father when we acknowledge and confess to Him our inability to run our own lives. That is what we are doing when we say, "Father, help me! I need You!"

But the very act of pausing in a busy day to pray is an act of weakening pride in my life, acknowledging that I am a dependent creature. I am not self sufficient.

He prays because he knows he doesn't control it. He's at the mercy of it.

Whether it's a Christian or a non-Christian, there's nothing like suffering to show us how small, needy, and not in control we are. Suffering has a way of sobering us up to the realization that we can't make it on our own, that we need help, that we're broken.

There's nothing like suffering to remind us how not in control we actually are, how little power we ultimately have, and how much we ultimately need God.

There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.

I believe in the power of weakness.

I cannot follow you Christians; for you try to crawl through your life upon your knees, while I stride through mine on my feet.

It is good to have an intellectual awareness of our dependence upon God - to understand how great He is and how very small we are in His sight.

He gave me the chance to be where I am today, and He's the one that can take it all away from me. So at the team hotel, I pray before sleeping, and I pray again in the morning.

Prayer is not passive. It takes a big man to pray - and to admit that he prays.

There is nothing so small but that we may honor God by asking His guidance of it, or insult Him by taking it into our own hands.

Abraham teaches us the right way of conversing with God : "And Abraham fell on his face, and God talked with him." When we plead with Him, our faces should be in the dust.

Prayer begins where our power ends.

The pride of learning is against the dependent humility of prayer.

The way to grow strong in Christ is to become weak in yourself.

I have no power, and that's what's so humbling.