George Meredith Quotes

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

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

Being somebody who wants to be religious doesn't make me perfect and doesn't make me necessarily any better than anybody else. It maybe makes me better than I would have been if I didn't have that level.

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

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

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

I believe in prayer and in strong belief.

I knew all of the childhood prayers I uttered on my knees at the side of my bed. Many years of Sunday-school attendance had etched certain Psalms and rote prayers into the fibers of my brain. However, somewhere deep inside of me, I had the secret belief that I did not know how to pray, and that frightened me.

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.

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

If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.

I find that my upbringing in the Church and my relationship with God are huge benefits to me in helping me become the kind of person that I want to become.

The question isn't if someone will sign up for spiritual formation; it's just who and what our spirits will be formed by.

If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.

My relationship with God has gotten better and stronger for the simple fact that I understand it a lot better. You know, to me, God's my best friend.

God strengthened me and taught me who I am in Him. He taught me that not only do I need to have faith in Him, but I need to believe in myself again.

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.

Religion is the call to confront reality; to master the self.

Let us take refuge from this world. You can do this in spirit, even if you are kept here in the body. You can at the same time be here and present to the Lord. Your soul must hold fast to him, you must follow after him in your thoughts, you must tread his ways by faith, not in outward show.

I believe that anything man himself can do for me, God can do for me in a greater way. I decided to pray and to seek God on my own. I just stayed in The Word. And it worked.

Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.

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

I wouldn't have really committed myself to any kind of spiritual lifestyle, I don't think, if I had not endured great suffering. I think that's the case with a lot of people.

I like the monastic life... in the prayer and the praising... this has charged me with new energy, spiritual energy. This is very important for my ministry outside the monastery.