Paul E. Miller, A Praying Life: Connecting With God In A Distracting World Quotes

If you wait, your heavenly Father will pick you up, carry you out into the night, and make your life sparkle. He wants to dazzle you with the wonder of his love.

Self-will and prayer are both ways of getting things done. At the center of self-will is me, carving a world in my image, but at the center of prayer is God, carving me in his Son's image.

Prayer is a moment of incarnation - God with us. God involved in the details of my life.

Prayer mirrors the gospel. In the gospel, the Father takes us as we are and gives us his gift of salvation. In prayer, the Father receives us as we are because of Jesus and gives us his gift of help.

We have an allergic reaction to dependency, but this is the state of the heart most necessary for a praying life. A need heart is a praying heart. Dependency is the heartbeat of prayer.

We don't know how bad we are until we try to be good. Nothing exposes our selfishness and spiritual pwerlessness like prayer.

The kingdom comes when Jesus becomes king of your life. But it has to be your life.

In order to pray like a child, you might need to unlearn the nonpersonal, nonreal praying that you've been taught.