Bounds on praying with a definite aim and staying at it. He treats prayer as work a Christian sets out to do.
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Prayer is a trade to be learned. We must be apprentices and serve our time at it. Painstaking care, much thought, practice and labour are required to be a skillful tradesman in praying. Practice in this, as well as in al…
We cannot run our spiritual operations on the prayers of the past generation.
Prayer puts God in full force in the world.
We are a generation of non-praying saints. Non-praying saints are a beggarly gang of saints, who have neither the ardour nor the beauty, nor the power of saints.
Many persons believe in the efficacy of prayer, but not many pray.
Prayer is the easiest and hardest of all things; the simplest and the sublimest; the weakest and the most powerful; its results lie outside the range of human possibilities—they are limited only by the omnipotence of God…
Pray for all men. We usually pray more for things than we do for men. Our prayers should be thrown across their pathway as they rush in their downward course to a lost eternity.
Prayer opens an outlet for the promises, removes the hindrances in the way of their execution, puts them into working order, and secures their gracious ends.
He who is too busy to pray, will be too busy to live a holy life.
Prayer is not the fruit of natural talents; it is the product of faith, of holiness, of deeply spiritual character. Men learn to pray as they learn to love.
Always does not mean that we are to neglect the ordinary duties of life; what it means is that the soul which has come into communion with God will carry the spirit of prayer into every duty.
The strongest one in Christ's kingdom is he who is the best knocker. The secret of success in Christ's Kingdom is the ability to pray. The one who can wield the power of prayer is the strong one, the holy one in Christ's…
It is only when the whole heart is gripped with the passion of prayer that the life-giving fire descends, for none but the earnest man gets access to the ear of God.
Men who can set the Church ablaze for God, not in a noisy, showy way, but with an intense and quiet heat that melts and moves every thing for God.
It is the effectual, fervent prayer that influences God.
All the true revivals have been born in prayer.
Around us is a world lost in sin, above us is a God willing and able to save; it is ours to build the bridge that links heaven and earth, and prayer is the mighty instrument that does the work.
To have God thus near is to enter the holy of holies — to breathe the fragrance of the heavenly air, to walk in Eden's delightful gardens. Nothing but prayer can bring God and man into this happy communion.
The lazy man does not, will not, cannot pray, for prayer demands energy. Paul calls it a striving, an agony.
Prayer is the keynote of the most sanctified life, of the holiest ministry. He does the most for God who is the highest skilled in prayer.
The Gospel, in its success and power, depends on our ability to pray.
We must remember that the goal of prayer is the ear of God. Unless that is gained the prayer has utterly failed.
Few Christians have anything but a vague idea of the power of prayer; fewer still have any experience of that power.
God shapes the world by prayer.
Prayers are deathless. They outlive the lives of those who uttered them.
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Prayer is a trade to be learned. We must be apprentices and serve our time at it. Painstaking care, much thought, practice and labour are required to be a skillful tradesman in praying. Practice in this, as well as in al…
We cannot run our spiritual operations on the prayers of the past generation.
Prayer puts God in full force in the world.
We are a generation of non-praying saints. Non-praying saints are a beggarly gang of saints, who have neither the ardour nor the beauty, nor the power of saints.
Many persons believe in the efficacy of prayer, but not many pray.
Prayer is the easiest and hardest of all things; the simplest and the sublimest; the weakest and the most powerful; its results lie outside the range of human possibilities—they are limited only by the omnipotence of God…
Pray for all men. We usually pray more for things than we do for men. Our prayers should be thrown across their pathway as they rush in their downward course to a lost eternity.
Prayer opens an outlet for the promises, removes the hindrances in the way of their execution, puts them into working order, and secures their gracious ends.
He who is too busy to pray, will be too busy to live a holy life.
Prayer is not the fruit of natural talents; it is the product of faith, of holiness, of deeply spiritual character. Men learn to pray as they learn to love.
Always does not mean that we are to neglect the ordinary duties of life; what it means is that the soul which has come into communion with God will carry the spirit of prayer into every duty.
The strongest one in Christ's kingdom is he who is the best knocker. The secret of success in Christ's Kingdom is the ability to pray. The one who can wield the power of prayer is the strong one, the holy one in Christ's…
It is only when the whole heart is gripped with the passion of prayer that the life-giving fire descends, for none but the earnest man gets access to the ear of God.
Men who can set the Church ablaze for God, not in a noisy, showy way, but with an intense and quiet heat that melts and moves every thing for God.
It is the effectual, fervent prayer that influences God.
All the true revivals have been born in prayer.
Around us is a world lost in sin, above us is a God willing and able to save; it is ours to build the bridge that links heaven and earth, and prayer is the mighty instrument that does the work.
To have God thus near is to enter the holy of holies — to breathe the fragrance of the heavenly air, to walk in Eden's delightful gardens. Nothing but prayer can bring God and man into this happy communion.
The lazy man does not, will not, cannot pray, for prayer demands energy. Paul calls it a striving, an agony.
Prayer is the keynote of the most sanctified life, of the holiest ministry. He does the most for God who is the highest skilled in prayer.
The Gospel, in its success and power, depends on our ability to pray.
We must remember that the goal of prayer is the ear of God. Unless that is gained the prayer has utterly failed.
Few Christians have anything but a vague idea of the power of prayer; fewer still have any experience of that power.
God shapes the world by prayer.
Prayers are deathless. They outlive the lives of those who uttered them.