A Quote by Oswald Chambers

To say that 'prayer changes things' is not as close to the truth as saying, 'prayer changes me and then I change things.' God has established things so that prayer, on the basis of redemption, changes the way a person looks at things.

Oswald Chambers

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Oswald Chambers
Scottish - Theologian
July 24, 1874 - November 15, 1917

Prayer changes things. Prayer changes us. Prayer changes life. Sometimes an event has been manifested that needs to be stopped, midair. Don't pray just when you're in trouble. Pray every day. Surround yourself with prayer. You never know when you might need an extra miracle.

Melody Beattie

I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us, and we change things.

Mother Teresa

Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us. As we engage in this communion with God more deeply and come to know the One with whom we are speaking more intimately, that growing knowledge of God reveals to us all the more brilliantly who we are and our need to change in conformity to Him. Prayer changes us profoundly.

R. C. Sproul

I used to pray that God would feed the hungry, or do this or that, but now I pray that he will guide me to do whatever I'm supposed to do, what I can do. I used to pray for answers, but now I'm praying for strength. I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us and we change things.

Mother Teresa

Prayer doesn't change things - God changes things in answer to prayer.

John Calvin

Prayer might not change things, but it will change my perspective of things. Prayer might not change the past, but inevitably, it changes the present.

Margaret Feinberg

Prayer changes things? No! Prayer changes people, and people change things.

Burton Hill

Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us.

R. C. Sproul

Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things.

Sam Shoemaker

I would love to have a more earnest prayer life! In my life, prayer is the single most difficult discipline. I love God and there's something in me that would rather do things for God than talk to God. I'm not by nature a mystical, devotional person. I like to do things. And so it's a challenge for me to have a faithful prayer life, but I know God loves me and He's not mad at me. He just wishes I would slow down and turn things over to Him. And that's what I think you achieve through prayer.

Max Lucado

Prayer involves transformed passions. In prayer, real prayer, we begin to think God's thoughts after Him: to desire the things He desires, to love the things He loves, to will the things He wills.

Richard J. Foster

Prayer doesn't just change things - it changes us. If we are diligent in seeking God, slowly and surely we become better people.

Joyce Meyer

I went from a D all the way to an A plus, I tell you prayer changes things.

R. Kelly

Is the Son of God praying in me, or am I dictating to Him?... Prayer is not simply getting things from God, that is a most initial form of prayer; prayer is getting into perfect communion with God. If the Son of God is formed in us by regeneration, He will press forward in front of our common sense and change our attitude to the things about which we pray.

Oswald Chambers

Though prayer doesn't change God's mind or God's purposes, prayer does change something- It changes us.