Oswald Chambers Quotes

All our prayers are addressed in the handwriting of the heart.

We want to know not how we should pray if we were perfect but how we should pray being as we now are ... It is no use to ask God with factitious earnestness for A when our whole mind is in reality filled with the desire for B. We must lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.

Our prayers are heard by God not according to what we try to be when we pray, but who we are when we are not praying

Prayer is a serious thing. We may be taken at our words.

Prayer is not eloquence but earnestness.

You can't fake it when you're alone with God, you know.

It takes me forever to say my prayers these days, but I don't care, because this time around, I want to make sure God doesn't have to do any guesswork.

It's about your heart and about your consciousness. It's not about length of time you pray. Some of the most powerful prayers I've ever heard come from children, who can barely speak.

When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart.

Prayers not felt by us are seldom heard by God.

The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us.

I pray everywhere and with all my heart.

I've always just written my heart and allowed God to do what he wanted to do.

Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don't try and mean it. Nor prayers. The liturgy is best treated and read as if it's someone announcing the departure of trains.

God looks not at the oratory of your prayers, how elegant they may be; nor at the geometry of your prayers, how long they may be; nor at the arithmetic of your prayers, how many they may be; not at logic of your prayers, how methodical they may be; but the sincerity of them he looks at.

Every wish Is like a prayer--with God.

Our Lord did not say it was wrong to pray in the corners of the street, but He did say it was wrong to have the motive to "be seen of men".

If you can't pray as you want to, pray as you can. God knows what you mean.

The prayer preceding all prayers is 'May it be the real I who speaks. May it be the real Thou that I speak to.'

Only the prayer which comes from our heart can get to God's heart.

Prayer is - a means of uniting us unto Himself.

Real prayer comes not from gritting our teeth but from falling in love.

Prayer is a relationship; half the job is mine. If I want transformation, but can't even be bothered to articulate what, exactly, I'm aiming for, how will it ever occur? Half the benefit of prayer is in the asking itself, in the offering of a clearly posed and well-considered intention. If you don't have this, all your pleas and desires are boneless, floppy, inert; they swirl at your feet in a cold fog and never lift.

Prayer is an effort of will.

Prayer is not only asking, it is an attitude of heart that produces an atmosphere in which asking is perfectly natural, and Jesus says, "every one that asketh receiveth."