Quotes about Understanding
Prayer is the act of seeing reality from God's point of view.
— Philip Yancey
A lot of the shadow self is the home of poetry, story, prayer. My deepest understandings are often released from the part of me of which I am least aware most of the time.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Believers must persevere in prayer that they may see clearly their own pitiful state and understand the indwelling, working, and demands of the Holy Spirit.
— Watchman Nee
Prayer continues in the desire of the heart, though the understanding be employed on outward things.
— John Wesley
If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for them. That is one of the rules common to the whole house.
— CS Lewis
Sometimes when your child talks, your friends cannot understand what he says; but the mother understands very well. So if our prayer comes from the heart, God understands our language.
— DL Moody
Prayer is more than words. It's listening, seeing and feeling.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Prayer turns theology into experience.
— Timothy Keller
If you can't pray as you want to, pray as you can. God knows what you mean.
— Vance Havner
If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer.
— Philip Yancey
It is a tremendously hard thing to pray aright, yea, it is verily the science of all sciences.
— Martin Luther
Without immersion in God's words, our prayers may not be merely limited and shallow but also untethered from reality.
— Timothy Keller