Victor Hugo on Prayer

“To place the infinity here below in contact, by medium of thought, with the infinity on high, is called praying.”*

Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, p.321.

God’s Wisdom and Strength

“Prayer acts as a conduit of wisdom and strength between you and God.”*

If any of you lacks wisdom, let his ask God, who gives generously to all (James 1:6).

Seek the Lord and his strength; seek His face continually (1 Chronicles 16:11).

*Michelle Lynn Senters, the Unseen Companion, p. 26.

*E.M. Bounds, The Complete Works of E.M. Bounds on Prayer, p.350.

“God intended prayer to be as simple and natural and as constant a part of our spiritual life as a relationship between a child and his parent.

As a large part of that relationship between child and and parent is simply asking and receiving, just so it is with our heavenly Parent.”*

*adapted from Rosalind Goforth, How I Know . . . God Answers Prayer, p.7-8.

Prayer is asking. Prayer is pleading. Prayer is praise.

But the ultimate goal of prayer is personal intimacy with God.*

*adapted from Beth Moore, Living Free, p.23.

Prayer is not acting a part or going through religious motions.

Prayer is neither official nor formal nor ceremonial, but direct, hearty, intense.

Prayer is the helpless and needy child crying to the compassion of the father’s heart and the bounty and power of a father’s hand.*

*E.M. Bounds, The Complete Works of E.M. Bounds on Prayer, p.350.

Prayer is as simple as talking to a friend and as awesome as being heard at the very throne of heaven.*

*Deborah Newman, Then God Created Woman, p. 217.