Prayer Purpose Quotes

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

We pray not to inform God or instruct Him but to beseech Him closely, to be made intimate with Him, by continuance in supplication; to be humbled; to be reminded of our sins.

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

To avail yourself of His certain wisdom, ask of Him whatever questions you have. But do not entreat Him, for that will never be necessary.

Jesus did not have a value for prayer for prayer's sake. He had a value for the intimate communion between God and man.

Why God has instituted Prayer:— To communicate to his creatures the dignity of causation.

The meaning of prayer is that I want to evoke that Divinity within me.

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

The goal of prayer is the ear of God.

The man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks that he can instruct god how to put them right.

The purpose of prayer and of God's call in your life isn't to make you number one in the world's eyes but to make Him number one in your life.

The idea that everything would happen exactly as it does regardless of whether we pray or not is a specter that haunts the minds of many who sincerely profess belief in God. It makes prayer psychologically impossible, replacing it with dead ritual at best.

Prayer is not designed to inform God, but to give man a sight of his misery; to humble man's heart, to excite his desire, to inflame his faith, to animate his hope, to raise his soul from earth to heaven.

Prayer is not a way of making use of God; prayer is a way of offering ourselves to God in order that He should be able to make use of us.

The purpose of prayer is not to influence God to grant you special favors, but rather to remind yourself that you are always connected to God.

Praying doesn't mean repeating a prayer.

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.

We cannot know what prayer is for until we know that life is war.

Prayer is always in danger of degenerating into a glorified gold rush. How to get things from God occupies most [books].

Never pray to God for release of your problems. Never pray to God to change your life, and to give you something better. This is wrong prayer. If you have to pray to God, pray to God to give you the strength and the wisdom and the courage that you need to be able to handle the situation that you're in. This is correct prayer.

The whole meaning of prayer is that we may know God.

I don't believe in school prayer. I think it's total nonsense...who is the teacher there that is going to have them pray? And is the teacher going to be Catholic or Mormon or Episcopalian or what? It just causes all sorts of problems. And what are the kids praying about anyway? Does it really matter, does praying in school...what are you doing it for? The whole thing just opens up all sorts of elements of discussion. I think it's crazy.

The purpose of prayer is not to change God's mind, which always knows your wholeness and your deservingness. The purpose of prayer is to change your mind so you can see through the eyes of God.

Prayer is, for me, not an opportunity to ask God to do stuff for me. Prayer is an opportunity to open myself, to try and understand his will, and oftentimes it's a prayer of thanksgiving, and sometimes it's a prayer of supplication, and sometimes it is just worship.

The Bible tells us that whenever we come before God, whatever our purpose or prayer request, we are always to come with a thankful heart.