Mother Maribel Quotes

Until you pray, God cannot work.

We may excuse the spiritual poverty of our preaching in many ways, but the true secret will be found in the lack of urgent prayer for God's presence in the power of the Holy Spirit.

Often we talk about God's ability to change lives without fully understanding how to access that power.

I believe in prayer and in strong belief.

I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.

God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.

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

I don't think there's anyone who would say they don't want or need more of God's power in their life.

I open my mind and allow the Holy Spirit to come in.

Begin each day with God. It will change your priorities.

God shapes the world by prayer. The more prayer there is in the world the better the world will be, the mightier the forces of against evil

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

No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure; but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God.

I'm a true believer in prayer, a big believer in prayer.

Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.

The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men - men of prayer.

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

'You better do a lot of praying' is good counsel for all of the Lord's servants, new or seasoned. It is what His wise servants do. They pray. The disciples of Jesus Christ when He lived on the earth noticed that about Him.

Through prayer, fasting, and studying, God will answer.

Prayer is man's greatest power!

I knew all of the childhood prayers I uttered on my knees at the side of my bed. Many years of Sunday-school attendance had etched certain Psalms and rote prayers into the fibers of my brain. However, somewhere deep inside of me, I had the secret belief that I did not know how to pray, and that frightened me.

Belief comes spontaneously as well as by effort. Belief is power. An insincere and uninspired seeker is aware of the truth that belief is power, but he cannot go beyond understanding or awareness; whereas a sincere, genuine, devoted and surrendered seeker knows that belief is dynamic power, and he has this power as his very own.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.

One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving God a chance to manifest. In centering prayer there are moments of peace that give the psyche a chance to realize that God may not be so bad after all. God has a chance to be himself for a change.