29 Quotes by Pete Greig

… start by calling God 'Father' (Luke 11:2). That's the key to prayer.

If our prayers for others mean anything at all, they cannot be cloistered away all the time in sanitised environments. Standing in the gap for the oppressed may well mean that it matters where we pray and how we pray, and that our prayers for the poor are worked out very practically.

God is not a mindless dispenser of demolition techniques; he is looking for relationship with those who dare to trust him against all other odds.

It's more important to know whom you are called to be with than what you are called to do.

Amid sparkling creativity, spectacular innovation and unprecedented wealth, growing up in the West means for many a sense of alienation and a craving for intimacy, authenticity and hope.

So I'm waiting for God, and God is waiting for me to see if I am really waiting for him, and not just wanting things from him.

Waiting on God, according to Scripture, is not a passive, vacuous state but rather an active process of asking, seeking and engaging with his Spirit.

A prayer room is first and foremost a living room – a place where the Father waits for his children to come and climb into his arms.

The day we start taking credit for the fact that he answers prayer we are in deep, deep trouble.