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Why and How Do I Pray? Quotes
Andrew Murray, a Christian writer once said: The power of prayer depends almost entirely upon our apprehension of who it is with whom we speak."
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Someone once wrote in the Times: "If God already knows the future, it must therefore be fixed." And Cliford Longley, a Catholic Religious Affairs correspondent, who was then the religious affairs correspondent of The Times replied like this: If God lives in the eternal present, He hears all prayers simultaneously. Therefore He can appropriate a prayer from next week and attach it to an event a month ago. Prayers said after the event can be heard before they are spoke and taken into account before the event.
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I think God would say no if, as John Stott put it, "if either it's not good for ourselves or for others, directly or indirectly, immediately or ultimately."
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"I am praying for the perpetrator of this killing and seeking God's forgiveness for him - praying also that he may now seek God himself and find peace and forgiveness with him." Robin Oake - father of Detective Stephen Oak stabbed to death by a terrorist in 2003
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| "To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world." -Karl Barth |
| "Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having a better past." -Anne Lamott |
| "The answer you give is clear, but not all hear it clearly. All ask you whatever they wish to ask, but the answer they receive is not always what they want to hear. The man who serves you best is the one who is less intent on hearing from you what he wills to hear than on shaping his will according to what he hears from you." -Augustine, Confessions (written about 400AD) |
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