Judson Cornwall Quotes

Pure prayer is not manipulation of God; it is relationship with God. It goes far beyond asking and starts enjoying His presence.

It is His will that I should cast My care on Him each day. He also bids me not to cast My confidence away. But Oh! how foolishly I act, When taken unaware, I cast away my confidence, And carry all my care.

Prayer is talking to the Father, not simply because we are confused or confounded, but because we are lonesome for Him.

The panorama of God’s provision in prayer is staggering. There is absolutely nothing in the realm of our anxieties that should be withheld from God.

Prayer is an activity. It is not a spectator sport. Listening to another pray is not prayer. Commiserating with your misery is not prayer, either. Prayer demands participation in communicating with God. It demands involvement, and the Scriptures marvelously involve us in prayer.

Prayer, in its most elementary sense, is the cry of the inner person to something or someone considered higher than that person. It is often an involuntary reaction that bypasses the conscious mind. Even nonreligious people exclaim, “Oh, my God!” when something extraordinary happens to them. Few people will leave this life without having uttered a prayer in one form or another, for built into the soul of every person is an awareness of God. When desperation overwhelms them, prayer overtakes them.

When we pray as the Scriptures teach us to pray, we learn that prayer is a relationship of dependence. It is a child communicating with his or her heavenly Father.