Spiritual Dialogue Quotes

My conversations with God always seem leave him speechless.

At the profoundest depths in life, men talk not about God but with Him.

It is a mistake to look to the Bible to close a discussion; the Bible seeks to open one.

Stop for a minute and think about how you typically interact with God. If prayer time is dominated by your own talking, some adjustments may be in order. Just as the Lord spoke to David, God also has many things to say to you, if you'll simply let Him speak.

For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.

As soon as we try to write the simplest sentence about God, we find ourselves in anxious perplexities, but when we stop trying to write about God and talk with God, God is there and we can talk with God.

It is wrong to turn a man (a subject) into a thing (an object). By means of spiritual dialogue, the I-It relationship becomes an I-Thou relationship. God comes and goes in man's soul. And men come and go in each other's souls. Sometimes they come and go in each other's beds, too.

Through prayer we speak to God. In meditation, God speaks to us.

Prayer is spiritual communication between man and God, a two-way relationship in which man should not only talk to God but also listen to Him. Prayer to God is like a child's conversation with his father. It is natural for a child to ask his father for the things he needs.

My method of praying does not meet the conventional standards as I don't recite any specific prayers but rather indulge in conversations with God.

When you pray be sure that you listen as well as talk. You have things you want to say to God but He also has things He wants to say to you.

I have a very close relationship with God. I even fight with Him at times.

I have never resisted the lord in my life, and I never will. But I'm not so hungry for dialogue with him that I have to make up his part as well as my own.

Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.

Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation.

Your calling my name is My reply. Your longing for Me is My message to you.

"God does not play games with His loyal servants," said the Metatron, but in a worried tone of voice. "Whooo-eee," said Crowley. "Where have you been?"

God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.

He's not rewarding us by talking to us. He's talking to us because He has something to say to us directly, as opposed to the things He says to all humanity.

Both need each other: The agnostic cannot be content to not know, but must be in search of the great truth of faith; the Catholic cannot be content to have faith, but must be in search of God all the time, and in the dialogue with others, a Catholic can learn more about God in a deeper fashion.

Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you.

For me, prayer is not so much me setting out a shopping list of requests for God to consider as it is a way of 'keeping company with God.'

Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.

Never forget your dialogue with God, it is your strength.