Joseph B. Wirthlin Quotes

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

Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.

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.

We may excuse the spiritual poverty of our preaching in many ways, but the true secret will be found in the lack of urgent prayer for God's presence in the power of the Holy Spirit.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

Observe the seven seasons of secret prayer every day.

When we change the way that we pray, everything changes.

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

Amen is not the end of a prayer, it just gets us ready to go to the next level.

We observe that in the scriptures, fasting almost always is linked with prayer. Without prayer, fasting is not complete fasting; it's simply going hungry.

Until you pray, God cannot work.

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

Praying that does not result in right thinking and right living is a farce. We have missed the whole office of prayer if it fails to purge our character and correct conduct. We have failed entirely to understand the virtue of prayer, if it does not bring about the revolutionizing of life. In the very nature of tings, we must either quit praying or quit our bad conduct.

Often we talk about God's ability to change lives without fully understanding how to access that power.

I say three prayers every night to make sure that God knows I thank him so much.

The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.

What most of all hinders heavenly consolation is that you are too slow in turning yourself to prayer.

I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.

One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving God a chance to manifest. In centering prayer there are moments of peace that give the psyche a chance to realize that God may not be so bad after all. God has a chance to be himself for a change.

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

I don't know what in the world happened. I don't know if it was the power of the prayer or God himself, but it just reached out, either while I was driving or walking down the sidewalk or sleeping, and it just - the power of God in Jesus just grabbed me... All of a sudden, I just believed in Jesus Christ. I did, I believed in him!

Our real work is prayer. What good is the cold iron of our frantic little efforts unless first we heat it in the furnace of our prayer? Only heat will diffuse heat.

Your heart has to be prepared ahead of time through faith and prayer and grace and mercy and love and forgiveness so you can keep your heart open in hell, when hell happens.

God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.

It's completely through prayer that I came to believe in God. I just sensed a presence south of my neck.