Praying with Jesus Quotes

“Forgiveness is an obligation of the forgiven, not something earned by forgiving.”
― Adriel Sanchez, Praying with Jesus: Getting to the Heart of the Lord’s Prayer

“Our debts are doubled when we realize that sin isn’t just the bad stuff we do; it’s also the good things we fail to do.”
― Adriel Sanchez, Praying with Jesus: Getting to the Heart of the Lord’s Prayer

“When you’re so close to the catch that your life depends on it, the prayer for daily bread takes on new importance. Imagine a first-century hunter or fisherman praying that God would supply the next deer or trout. For many of us, food is so accessible that we take this petition”
― Adriel Sanchez, Praying with Jesus: Getting to the Heart of the Lord’s Prayer

“God sometimes chooses to hallow his name not through our victories, but through our struggles. It may be the ongoing battle with sin that causes you to lean into his grace and rely on his Spirit, or the incurable cancer through which he exhibits the glory of his name in your grasp of resurrection hope. God is already making his name holy in you if you have the eyes to see it.”
― Adriel Sanchez, Praying with Jesus: Getting to the Heart of the Lord’s Prayer

“Hence, we pray “not in order to make know to Him our needs or desires, but that we ourselves may be reminded of the necessity of having recourse to God’s help in these matters.”1”
― Adriel Sanchez, Praying with Jesus: Getting to the Heart of the Lord’s Prayer

“You don’t need to be super spiritual to pray; you just need to be poor in spirit. On the flip side, the more self-confident you are, the less you’ll tend to truly pray.”
― Adriel Sanchez, Praying with Jesus: Getting to the Heart of the Lord’s Prayer

“As a key ingredient of faith, being poor in spirit conveys coming to Christ in want and need.”
― Adriel Sanchez, Praying with Jesus: Getting to the Heart of the Lord’s Prayer

“In prayer, we are to be like that nightingale. Prayer is the song of your heart to God. Sometimes it’s an explosion of praise, and other times it’s a trickling lamentation. In either case, the source of true prayer is the heart.”
― Adriel Sanchez, Praying with Jesus: Getting to the Heart of the Lord’s Prayer

“African theologian Tertullian said that in the Lord’s Prayer one finds, “the whole record of Jesus’s instruction, so that, without exaggeration, a summary of the whole gospel is to be found in this prayer.”1”
― Adriel Sanchez, Praying with Jesus: Getting to the Heart of the Lord’s Prayer

“It’s a shame when I turn privileged access to the throne of grace into a chore.”
― Adriel Sanchez, Praying with Jesus: Getting to the Heart of the Lord’s Prayer