Talking To God Quotes

It once occured to me that literature - all art really - is either talking to people about God, or talking to God about people.

If we are to be just like Jesus, we must have regular time of talking to God and listening to his Word.

Sometimes at night, when I wake up real late, I can hear my dad talking to God. He whispers, but I still hear him. I even hear him crying sometimes, when God says something sad.

If prayer is you talking to God, then intuition is God talking to you.

There are some people who, in order not to pray use as an excuse the fact that life is so hectic that it prevents us from praying. This cannot be. Prayer does not demand that we interrupt our work, but that we continue working as if it were a prayer. It is not necessary to always be in meditation, nor to consciously experience the sensation that we are talking to God, no matter how nice that would be. What matters is being with Him, living in Him, in His will. To love with a pure heart, to love everybody, especially to live the poor, is a twenty-four hour prayer.

Talking to God was damned good business.

I spent most of my time talking to God more than to people.

Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?

I gave my heart to Jesus when I was five-years-old and since then it's been a special relationship. To me it's not a religion; it's just talking to God, reading his word, and doing my best to honor him in everything I do.

There comes a moment when you must quit talking to God about the mountain in your life and start talking to the mountain about your God. You proclaim His power. You declare His sovereignty. You affirm His faithfulness. You stand on His Word. You cling to His promises.

If we would pray aright, the first thing we should do is to see to it that we really get an audience with God, that we really get into His very presence. Before a word of petition is offered, we should have the definite consciousness that we are talking to God, and should believe that He is listening and is going to grant the thing that we ask of Him.

I fear that for the most part people are worshiping worship rather than worshiping God and communing with Him.

Pray that God will open the doors you can't open and close the doors that need to be closed.

At times we can be self-absorbed. Lord, help us to open our hearts to others and to serve those who are most vulnerable.

Confession is the sacrament of the tenderness of God, his way of embracing us.

Ya Allah, envelop our hearts with a shield of your light and mercy, so the pain doesn't penetrate.

Time for solitude. God, I ask you to remake my heart. Fill it with what You love. Remove from it what You don’t. And mend what I’ve broken.

Dear parents, teach your children to pray. Pray with them.

To pray without expectation is to misunderstand the whole concept of prayer and relationship with God.

Let us never forget that authentic power is service, which has its radiant culmination on the Cross.

If we knew how much God loved us and was for us, we’d talk to Him all day long.

Father, write Your Word in our heart; make us men and women who understand Your truth.

To be friends with God means to pray with simplicity, like children talking to their parents.

If God has made your cup sweet, drink it with grace; if He has made it bitter, drink it in communion with Him.

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

When we pray, we open the door for God to come into our problems and situations and work on them.

I talk to God but the sky is empty.

Lord, help us to live the virtue of generosity, to love without limits.

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

It's kind of spooky when you are caught talking to God everybody thinks you're nuts. They used to call you a prophet.

Some people keep God in a Sunday morning box and say, 'Hey, I did my religious duty.' That's fine, but the scripture says to pray without ceasing. And I think that means all through the day you're talking to God. Even if it's in your thoughts.

Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still. He will never talk well and with real success to men for God who has not learned well how to talk to God for men.

Bless, O Lord of the centuries and the millennia, the daily work by which men and women provide bread for themselves and their loved ones. We also offer to your fatherly hands the toil and sacrifices associated with work, in union with your Son Jesus Christ, who redeemed human work from the yoke of sin and restored it to its original dignity.

Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still.

It is impossible for a believer, no matter what his experience, to keep right with God if he will not take the trouble to spend time with God. Spend plenty of time with him; let other things go, but don't neglect Him.

Prayer at its highest is a two-way conversation - and for me the most important part is listening to God's replies.

Thy way, not mine, O Lord, however dark it be; lead me by thine own hand; choose out the path for me.

God save us from living in comfort while sinners are sinking into hell!

The president of the United States has claimed, on more than one occasion, to be in dialogue with God. If he said that he was talking to God through his hairdryer, this would precipitate a national emergency. I fail to see how the addition of a hairdryer makes the claim more ridiculous or offensive.

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'

Prayer is not monologue, but dialogue; God's voice is its most essential part. Listening to God's voice is the secret of the assurance that He will listen to mine.

If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.

As I make goals for this year... Jesus, let your thoughts become my thoughts and bend my will to Your will.

When you suffer, don't speak. Look inside and listen for the duaa He inspires in you. and then ask Him. Again and again. Don't stop.

I have a spiritual advisor I call up, when I just feel lost. Lately, I've been talking to God. I developed this dialogue in rehab, this dialogue with God, and every day I talk to God.

The Spirit of prayer makes us so intimate with God that we scarcely pass through an experience before we speak to Him about it, either in supplication, in sighing, in pouring out our woes before Him, in fervent requests, or in thanksgiving and adoration.

The universe is wired with the electricity of God, & each of us is a lamp. It doesn't matter the size or shape of the lamp; it only matters that the lamp is plugged in. With every prayer, every thought of forgiveness, every meditation, every act of love, we plug in. The more of us who plug in, to more the darkness of the world will be cast from our midst. Today, let's all increase love's wattage!

Be much alone with God, and take time to get thoroughly acquainted. Converse over everything with Him. Unburden yourself wholly -every thought, feeling, wish, plan, doubt- to Him...He wants not merely to be on good terms with you, but to be intimate.

Prayer is crucial in evangelism: Only God can change the heart of someone who is in rebellion against Him. No matter how logical our arguments or how fervent our appeals, our words will accomplish nothing unless God's Spirit prepares the way.

See your weakness as a reason to pray the more, it should not be the reason for sadness or to abandon your post.