The bottom line is pray. If you're tired, sick, emotionally overwhelmed—pray. If you're on cloud nine and life seems perfect—pray. If you lack direction—pray. If you doubt that prayer makes any difference—pray. If the circumstances of your life are out of your control—pray. If the circumstances of your life seem well within you're your control—pray even harder. Whatever you do—pray.
— Tony Evans (b. 1949), Theologe, Pastor, Autor
Topics: Prayer & Silence, Faith & Trust, Courage & Strength
Occasions: Encouragement
Tony Evans
Tony Evans (* 1949) ist ein US-amerikanischer evangelikaler Theologe, Autor und langjähriger Pastor der Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas. Bekanntheit erlangte er durch sein ganzheitliches Konzept der „Kingdom Agenda“ sowie als erster afroamerikanischer Verfasser einer vollständigen Studienbibel, trat jedoch 2024 nach dem Eingeständnis eines früheren persönlichen Fehlverhaltens von pastoralen Leitungsaufgaben zurück. Für Bibelleser verbinden seine Schriften und Predigten theologische Auslegung mit alltagsnaher Anwendung und gesellschaftlicher Verantwortung.
When we pray, the circumstances often remain the same, but we become different.
Oswald Chambers
Prayer does not change God, but the one who prays.
Søren Kierkegaard
Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
Corrie ten Boom
To pray is to draw breath from God.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Prayer does not equip us for greater works – prayer is the greater work.
Oswald Chambers
God has his ear at your heart.
Augustine of Hippo
Prayers are tools not for doing or getting, but for being and becoming.
Eugene Peterson