Joseph B. Wirthlin Quotes

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

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

A man can preach no better than he prays.

Observe the seven seasons of secret prayer every day.

When the fire of prayer goes out, the barrenness of busyness takes over.

The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer.

Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God.

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

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.

For me, making time for God is like making time to fill my stomach - like the physical space in the stomach needs food, spiritual space in one's soul needs regular prayer.

I believe that there is no prayer without fasting, and there is no real fast without prayer.

I am persuaded that the chief reason why we do not enjoy religion is that we do not try to enjoy it.

The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.

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.

The life of the individual believer, his personal salvation, and personal Christian graces have their being, bloom and fruitage in prayer.

All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless, it must be done by the Spirit.

God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And his children shall be filled if they will only hunger and thirst after what he offers.

I just really believe people have to get hungry. I think maybe what we need to do, instead of trying to stuff our beliefs down people's throats, is just pray for them to really be hungry and to see their neediness.

When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts.

Often the work of the Lord itself may be a temptation to keep us from that communion with Him which is so essential to the benefit of our own souls.

Ramadan is, in its essence, a month of humanist spirituality.

The words of confirmation into the Church are an invitation: 'Receive the Holy Ghost.' And that choice must be made not once, but every day, every hour, every minute.

I would say it simply: No one can give that which he doesn't personally possess, which means we cannot transmit the Holy Spirit in an effective way, render the Spirit perceptible, if we ourselves aren't close to the Spirit.

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

I believe in walking in the Spirit.