Praying for Your Elephant Quotes

“Grief is like a knotted ball of yarn. It is not something that can be cut through with scissors but must rather be painstakingly unknotted.”
― Adam Stadtmiller, Praying for Your Elephant: Boldly Approaching Jesus with Radical and Audacious Prayer

“The boundaries of our personal prayer lives often have less to do with biblical restrictions and more to do with the limitations we place on them.”
― Adam Stadtmiller, Praying for Your Elephant: Boldly Approaching Jesus with Radical and Audacious Prayer

“There is no way that Christians in a private capacity can do so much to promote the work of God, and advance the kingdom of Christ, as by prayer. —Jonathan Edwards”
― Adam Stadtmiller, Praying for Your Elephant: Boldly Approaching Jesus with Radical and Audacious Prayer

“What gives prayer its power and effectiveness is less about the people who pray or the system of prayer they use, but rather God the Father who delights in turning His children’s weakness into great strength.”
― Adam Stadtmiller, Praying for Your Elephant: Boldly Approaching Jesus with Radical and Audacious Prayer

“God’s ability to respond far beyond what we ask is one of the things that makes prayer spiritually nuclear. Each prayer is an atom that if split by God has unending possibilities. I call these prolific responses by God the tailwind of prayer. The basic concept is that a single prayer often has the ability to achieve more than you ever imagined. Prayer has a way of blowing wind into other sails in your life that you might not even be praying about.”
― Adam Stadtmiller, Praying for Your Elephant: Boldly Approaching Jesus with Radical and Audacious Prayer

“I am in the business of prayer creation; I leave the editorial and distribution responsibilities to God.”
― Adam Stadtmiller, Praying for Your Elephant: Boldly Approaching Jesus with Radical and Audacious Prayer

“God on the other hand sees the eternal landscape that each prayer offers Him. We pray a single prayer for a momentary blessing, but God sees the opportunity to turn that prayer into something far beyond the confines of our limited understanding. What”
― Adam Stadtmiller, Praying for Your Elephant: Boldly Approaching Jesus with Radical and Audacious Prayer

“Jesus loves you. Jesus loves you now. Jesus is not waiting to love the self-created, cleaned-up, and perfect future version of you.”
― Adam Stadtmiller, Praying for Your Elephant: Boldly Approaching Jesus with Radical and Audacious Prayer

“While it is true that God is not a liar and will do what He says He will do, we must not be arrogant enough to believe that the way He fulfills His promises will match the way we think He will respond to them. Nor should we be foolish enough to believe that the claims Jesus makes about answering prayer are devoid of construct. The bold claim to answer whatever we ask for in Jesus’s name is snugly nestled between right relationship with God, proper motive, and His divine will.”
― Adam Stadtmiller, Praying for Your Elephant: Boldly Approaching Jesus with Radical and Audacious Prayer

“Prayer is spiritually nuclear in nature; it is the raw material of God and His people. Prayer is out of Satan’s influence. He has no power to warp or influence a prayer’s trajectory to God’s throne after it has been prayed.”
― Adam Stadtmiller, Praying for Your Elephant: Boldly Approaching Jesus with Radical and Audacious Prayer