E. Stanley Jones Prayer Quotations

Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment.

Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.

Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of 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.

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

In the prayer time, the battle of the spiritual life is lost or won.

If you don't surrender to Christ, you surrender to chaos.

We find, sooner or later, that in prayer we either abandon ourselves or we abandon prayer.

When prayer fades out, power fades out. We are as spiritual as we are prayerful; no more, no less.

Prayer is surrender--surr ender to the will of God and cooperation with that will. If I throw out a boathook from the boat and catch hold of the shore and pull, do I pull the shore to me, or do I pull myself to the shore? Prayer is not pulling God to my will, but the aligning of my will to the will of God.