Peter Kreeft Quotes About Prayer

Quotes about: Prayer

• I strongly suspect that if we saw all the difference even the tiniest of our prayers make, and all the people those...prayers were destined to affect...we would be so paralyzed with awe...that we would be unable to get up off our knees for the rest of our lives.

  Peter Kreeft

  Prayer, Differences, People

• Why pray if we cannot change God? ...is that why we pray? To change omniscient Love? Isn't it rather to learn what it is and to fulfill it? Not to change it by our acts, but to change our acts by it.

  Peter Kreeft

  Prayer, Love Is, Praying

• I think nobody alive today is a more powerful agent of conversion than someone like Mother Teresa. You can refute arguments but not her life. When she came to the National Prayer Breakfast and lectured President Clinton about abortion, he had nothing to say to her. He can't argue with a saint. It's too bad there isn't an easier way, because becoming a saint is not the easiest thing in the world. It's much easier to become an apologist or a philosopher or a theologian.

  Peter Kreeft

  Mother, Powerful, Prayer

• Trusting God's grace means trusting God's love for us rather than our love for God. [...] Therefore our prayers should consist mainly of rousing our awareness of God's love for us rather than trying to rouse God's awareness of our love for him, like the priests of Baal on Mount Carmel (1 Kings 18:26-29).

  Peter Kreeft

  Kings, Prayer, Mean

• Nothing but prayer can make saints because nothing but God can make saints, and we meet God in prayer. Prayer is the hospital for souls where we meet Doctor God.

  Peter Kreeft

  Prayer, Doctors, Soul

  Peter Kreeft (2000). “Prayer for Beginners”, p.14, Ignatius Press

• Lack of prayer is the cause of lack of time.

  Peter Kreeft

  Prayer, Catholic, Causes

• The first rule for prayer, the most important first step, is not about how to do it, but to just do it; not to perfect and complete it but to begin it. Once the car is moving, it's easy to steer it in the right direction, but it's much harder to start it up when it's stalled. And prayer is stalled in our world.

  Peter Kreeft

  Prayer, Moving, Our World

• Prayer is like Thanksgiving dinner. It takes one hour to eat it and ten hours to prepare it.

  Peter Kreeft

  Prayer, Catholic, Dinner

• Prayer is fundamentally a transformation of will, a lifting of the heart and will to God.

  Peter Kreeft

  Prayer, Heart, Transformation

• Prayer is essentially the practice of the presence of God, and that is the road to Heaven. There is no alternative. God is the only game in town. All other roads are dead ends. Since we must give our all to the one true God, we must not give any part to idols, to the many false gods that now bite away at our lives.

  Peter Kreeft

  Prayer, Idols, Practice

  Peter Kreeft (2000). “Prayer for Beginners”, p.93, Ignatius Press

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