George Arthur Buttrick Quotes

#1. Prayer is listening as well as speaking, receiving as well as asking; and its deepest mood is friendship held in reverence. So the daily prayer should end as it begins - in adoration.

George Arthur Buttrick

#2. Faith is the response of our spirits to beckonings of the eternal.

George Arthur Buttrick

#3. It appears that when life is broken by tragedy God shines through the breach.

George Arthur Buttrick

#4. We need deliberately to call to mind the joys of our journey. Perhaps we should try to write down the blessings of one day. We might begin; we could never end; there are not pens or paper enough in all the world.

George Arthur Buttrick

#5. Life is essentially a series of events to be lived through rather than intellectual riddles to be played with and solved.

George Arthur Buttrick

#6. Prayer is not a substitute for work, thinking, watching, suffering, or giving; prayer is a support for all other efforts.

George Arthur Buttrick

#7. Prayer is not a vain attempt to change God's will; it is a filial desire to learn God's will and to share it. Prayer is not a substitute for work: it is the secret spring and indispensable ally of all true work.

George Arthur Buttrick

#8. Intercession is more than specific: it is pondered: it requires us to bear on our heart the burden of those for whom we pray.

George Arthur Buttrick

#9. For a man to argue, 'I don't go to church; I pray alone,' is no wiser than if he should say, 'I have no use for symphonies; I believe only in solo music.'

George Arthur Buttrick