{"quotes":[{"text":"When you wish to talk to someone, talk to Jesus, He loves to hear you speak.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["answers-silence","answers-to-prayer","companionship","jesus-the-christ","prayer","prayer-worship","prayerful-habits","prayers-answered","prayers-of-the-heart","praying-life","speak","speaking-difficulties","speaking-silence","speaking-to-god","speaking-your-mind","spiritual-growth","spiritual-insights","spiritual-faith","talking","talking-to-god","talking-to-yourself","wishes-dreams","wishes-fulfilled","wishes"],"id":125990,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"The single most important piece of advice about prayer is one word: Begin!","author":"Peter Kreeft","tags":["faith","prayer","talking-to-god"],"id":126432,"author_id":"Peter+Kreeft"},{"text":"For many of us prayer means nothing more than speaking with God. And since it usually seems to be a quite one-sided affair, prayer simply means talking to God. This idea is enough to create great frustrations. If I present a problem, I expect a solution; if I formulate a question, I expect an answer; if I ask for guidance, I expect a response. And when it seems, increasingly, that I am talking into the dark, it is not so strange that I soon begin to suspect that my dialogue with God is in fact a monologue. Then I may begin to ask myself: To whom am I really speaking, God or myself?","author":"Henri J.M. Nouwen","tags":["prayer","talking-to-god"],"id":464276,"author_id":"Henri+J.M.+Nouwen"},{"text":"Prayer is communication. You talk, God listens. You listen when God talks.","author":"Omoakhuana Anthonia","tags":["communication","happy-living","inspirational","life","listening-to-god","listening-to-inner-self","motivational","prayer","prayer-life","prayer","prayers-of-the-heart","talking-to-god"],"id":474854,"author_id":"Omoakhuana+Anthonia"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":4,"pages":1}}