Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes

Prayer is a sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the soul to God, through Christ, in the strength and assistance of the Spirit, for such things as God has promised.

Worship and intercession must go together, the one is impossible without the other. Intercession means that we rouse ourselves up to get the mind of Christ about the one for whom we pray.

Pray in faith.

When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart.

Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.

Prayer to be fruitful must come from the heart and must be able to touch the heart of God.

The Our Father contains all possible petitions; we cannot conceive of any prayer not already contained in it. It is to prayer what Christ is to humanity.

Only the prayer which comes from our heart can get to God's heart.

When man is with God in awe and love, then he is praying.

Prayer is nothing else than a sense of God's presence

Prayer enters the pool of God's love and widens outward.

A little lifting of the heart suffices; a little remembrance of God, one act of inward worship are prayers which, however short, are nevertheless acceptable to God.

Prayer is of transcendent importance. Prayer is the mightiest agent to advance God's work. Praying hearts and hands only can do God's work. Prayer succeeds when all else fails.

We find, sooner or later, that in prayer we either abandon ourselves or we abandon prayer.

My secret is a very simple one: I pray. To pray to Christ is to love him.

Man is not to be comprehended as a starting-point, or progress as a goal, without those two great forces , Faith and Love . Prayer is sublime.

Prayer is the raising of the mind to God. We must always remember this. The actual words matter less.

Dear children in Jesus Christ, prayer is absolutely necessary.

I believe in prayer. I pray every night.

When we are truly praying, then we can begin to see Christ in our neighbour; when we are really praying, we can begin to live for the Father.

I know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.

I believe in God and the power of prayer.

I pray while driving. I pray while working, and while relaxing.