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Timothy Keller Quotes about Prayer

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The basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God's will to mine, but to mold my will into His.

The basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God's will to mine, but to mold my will into His.

Prayer, Mold, Purpose

Timothy Keller (2013). “The Obedient Master”, p.14, Penguin

Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well, that our bad things will turn out for good, our good things cannot be taken from us, and the best things are yet to come.

Prayer, Powerful, Taken

Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.50, Penguin

Prayer is a recognition of the greatness of our God.

Prayer, Greatness, Recognition

Prayer is continuing a conversation that God has started through his Word and his grace, which eventually becomes a full encounter with him.

Prayer, Grace, Encounters

Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.35, Penguin

Prayer should be done regularly, persistently, resolutely, and tenaciously at least daily, whether we feel like it or not.

Prayer, Done, Should

Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.78, Penguin

Every single emotion you have should be processed in prayer.

Prayer, Emotion, Should

Prayer gives us relief from the melancholy burden of self-absorption .

Prayer, Self, Giving

Prayer can be simple, but it's not easy. Nothing great is.

Prayer, Simple, Easy

God will only give you what you would have asked for if you knew everything he knows

God, Religious, Prayer

The greatness of prayer is nothing but an extension of the greatness and glory of God in our lives To fail to pray, then, is not to merely break some religious rule - it is a failure to treat God as God. It is a sin against his glory

Religious, Prayer, Greatness

Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.23, Penguin

Prayer-though it is often draining, even an agony-is in the long term the greatest source of power that is possible.

Christian, Prayer, Powerful

Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.88, Penguin

Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well.

Prayer, Powerful, Way

Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.50, Penguin

Prayer is both conversation and encounter with God.

Prayer, Encounters, Conversation

Prayer turns theology into experience.

Prayer, Theology, Turns

Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.54, Penguin

Without immersion in God's words, our prayers may not be merely limited and shallow but also untethered from reality.

Prayer, Reality, May

Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.43, Penguin

Prayer is our way of entering into the happiness of God himself

Prayer, Entering, Way

Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.47, Penguin

Prayer is awe before an infinite force, and yet it's intimacy with a personal friend.

Prayer, Infinite, Intimacy

Prayer is never just an emergency flare or desperate anxious gamble. God's attention is not based on our performance but parental love.

Prayer, Attention, Emergencies

We are so quick to tweet, Facebook, and Instagram but we treat prayer with a sense of delay?

Prayer, Delay, Instagram

A triune God would call us to converse with him . . . because he wants to share the joy he has. Prayer is our way of entering into the happiness of God himself.

Prayer, Joy, Entering

Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.47, Penguin

A rich, vibrant, consoling, hard-won prayer life is the one good that makes it possible to receive all other kinds of goods rightly and beneficially. [Paul] does not see prayer as merely a way to get things from God but as a way to get more of God himself.

Prayer, Doe, Way

Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.20, Penguin

If God does not have our highest allegiance, we will use prayer to try to get things that have that designation.

Prayer, Trying, Doe

Our prayers should arise out of immersion in the Scripture. [We] speak only to the degree we are spoken to.

Prayer, Degrees, Scripture

Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.40, Penguin

It fits to glorify God - it not only fits reality, because God is infinitely and supremely praiseworthy, but it fits us as nothing else does. All the beauty we have looked for in art or faces or places - and all the love we have looked for in the arms of other people - is only fully present in God himself. And so in every action by which we treat him as glorious as he is, whether through prayer, singing, trusting, obeying, or hoping, we are at once giving God his due and fulfilling our own design.

God, Art, Prayer

"Walking with God through Pain and Suffering".

Prayer is awe, intimacy, struggle-yet, the way to reality.

Prayer, Struggle, Reality

Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.26, Penguin

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