William Barclay Quotes

I have to be honest in asking myself: Do I really want to know and do God's will? Or is it rather that I want God to do my will? Do I go to God with the assurance that I want only to know and do his will? Or do I rather first make my own plans and then insist that God make my dreams come true?

Prayer is not so much about convincing God to do what we want God to do as it is about convincing ourselves to do what God wants us to do.

The real end of prayer is not so much to get this or that single desire granted, as to put human life into full and joyful conformity with the will of God.

Stop asking God to bless what you're doing. Find out what God's doing. It's already blessed.

Prayer does not mean that I am to bring God down to my thoughts and my purposes, and bend his government according to my foolish, silly, and sometimes sinful notions. Prayer means that I am to be raised up into feeling, into union and design with him; that I am to enter into his counsel and carry out his purpose fully.

Prayer opens our lives for God so his will can be done in and through us, because in true prayer we habitually put ourselves into the attitude of willingness to do whatever God wills.

A key to improved prayer is to learn to ask the right questions. Consider changing from asking for the things you want to honestly seeking what He wants for you. Then as you learn His will, pray that you will be led to have the strength to fulfill it.

All I really want - when I pray , I don't really ask for anything. All I want to do is God's will and make the best decisions I can. I don't go out and preach.

I used to pray that God would do this or that; now I pray that God will make His will known to me.

Prayer is not about letting God know your will; it's about completely submitting to him. You die to yourself.

I do not ask, O Lord, that life may be a pleasant road.

Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.

Prayer is not so much the means whereby God's will is bent to man's desires, as it is that whereby man's will is bent to God's desires.

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.

God has made me desire always what he most wants to give me.

When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent.

There is no limit to what the Lord can do in and with and through any individual or any married couple who surrender themselves and their resources completely to His will and His way.

You'll find success in life when you stop trying to include God in your plans and Instead ask God to include you in His.

If we have trouble hearing Him, He will faithfully work in our lives until we are pointed in the direction He wants us to go.

God, I want what you want more than I want what I want.

Prayer is not a means by which I seek to control God; it is a means of putting myself in a position where God can control me.

Prayer isn't where we change God, but He changes us. Instead of praying for OUR desires, let's pray He burden us with HIS.

After we have made our requests known to Him, our language should be, "Thy will be done". I would a thousand times rather that Gods' will should be done than my own.

The purpose of prayer is the alignment of the mind with the thoughts and the will of God.

Prayer is not asking God to do something, it's asking God to help YOU do something