William Barclay Quotes About Prayer

Quotes about: Prayer

• Prayer is not flight, prayer is power. Prayer does not deliver a man from some terrible situation; prayer enables a man to face and to master the situation.

  William Barclay

  Prayer, Men, Doe

• Prayer is not a way of making use of God; prayer is a way of offering ourselves to God in order that He should be able to make use of us.

  William Barclay

  Prayer, Offering, Order

• It may be that one of our great faults in prayer is that we talk too much and listen too little. When prayer is at its highest we wait in silence for God's voice to us; we linger in His presence for His peace and His power to flow over us and around us; we lean back in His everlasting arms and feel the serenity of perfect security in Him.

  William Barclay

  Christian, Prayer, Voice

• True prayer is asking God what He wants.

  William Barclay

  Prayer, Asking, Want

• We are trying not so much to make God listen to us as to make ourselves listen to him; we are trying not to persuade God to do what we want, but to find out what he wants us to do. It so often happens that in prayer we are really saying, 'Thy will be changed,' when we ought to be saying, 'Thy will be done.' The first object of prayer is not so much to speak to God as to listen to him.

  William Barclay

  Prayer, Trying, Done

• Prayer will never do our work for us; what it will do is to strengthen us for work which must be done.

  William Barclay

  Prayer, Done

  William Barclay (2014). “Barclay on the Lectionary: Mark, Year B”, p.58, Saint Andrew Press

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