Max Lucado Quotes

Make the most of prayer. ... Prayer is the master-weapon. We should be wise if we used it more, and did so with a more specific purpose.

Prayer from the heart can achieve what nothing else can in the world.

Prayer is the difference between the best we can do and the best God can do.

Jesus intercedes for us each day. Let us pray: Lord, have mercy on me; intercede for me!

Prayer is vastly superior to worry. With worry, we are helpless; with prayer, we are interceding. When I hear sad news, I try to say a prayer for the victims. When I am troubled, I will say a prayer that asks for relief for myself and for all those who suffer as I do. When I am concerned about my relatives or friends I say a short prayer to myself - "May they be happy and free of suffering."

Let us always pray for one another.

The world was made partly that there may be prayer; partly that our prayers might be answered.

If we do not love one another, we certainly shall not have much power with God in prayer.

By prayer, the ability is secured to feel the law of love, to speak according to the law of love, and to do everything in harmony with the law of love.

In the end, the number of prayers we say may contribute to our happiness, but the number of prayers we answer may be of even greater importance.

There must be people who pray even for those who never pray.

Jesus did not only serve the needs of the people, but truly hoped that the people and Jesus would be one.

Prayer is our invitation to God to intervene in the affairs of earth. It is our request for Him to work His ways in this world.

Pray for someone else's child, your pastor, the military, the police officers, the firemen, the teachers, the government. There's no end to the ways that you can intervene on behalf of others through prayer.

Intercessory prayer might be defined as loving our neighbour on our knees.

Prayer reminds me it's not just about me. It's about all the people with whom I share this planet, and all of whom God has created, and all of whom he cares just as much about as he cares about me.

Prayer is the medium of miracles; in whatever way works for you, pray right now.

Love knows how to form itself. God will do his work if we do ours. Our job is to prepare ourselves for love. When we do, love finds us every time.

I love people. Jesus loves people.

Christianity is not a religion or a philosophy, but a relationship and a lifestyle. The core of that lifestyle is thinking of others, as Jesus did, instead of ourselves.

Shall I give you yet another reason why you should pray? I have preached my very heart out. I could not say any more than I have said. Will not your prayers accomplish that which my preaching fails to do? Is it not likely that the Church has been putting forth its preaching hand but not its praying hand? Oh dear friends! Let us agonize in prayer.

Intercession means that we deliberately substitute God’s interests in others for our natural sympathy with them.

Prayer is the one prime, eternal condition by which the Father is pledged to put the Son in possession of the world. Christ prays through His people. Had there been importunate, universal, and continuous prayer by God's people, long ere this the earth had been possessed for Christ.

No insistence in the Scripture is more pressing than that we must pray...How clear it is, when the Bible is consulted, that the almighty God is brought directly into the things of this world by the prayers of His people.

Prayer changes things. Prayer changes us. Prayer changes life. Sometimes an event has been manifested that needs to be stopped, midair. Don't pray just when you're in trouble. Pray every day. Surround yourself with prayer. You never know when you might need an extra miracle.