 Prayer is the breath of the new creature. Author: Richard Baxter |
| Prayer must carry on our work as much as preaching; he preacheth not heartily to his people that will not pray for them. Author: Richard Baxter |
| Our Heavenly Father always sends His children the things they ask, or better things. Author: Richard Cecil |
| We are urgent about the body; He is about the soul. We call for present comforts; He considers our everlasting rest. And therefore when He sends not the very things we ask, He hears us by sending greater than we can ask or think. Author: Richard Cecil |
| God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction. Author: Richard Cecil |
| The Christian will find his parentheses for prayer even in the busiest hours of life. Author: Richard Cecil |
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| The only instance of praying to saints, mentioned in the Bible, is that of the rich man in torment calling upon Abraham; and let it be remembered, that it was practised only by a lost soul and without success. Author: Richard Cecil |
| I could write down twenty cases wherein I wished that God had done otherwise than he did, but which I now see, if I had had my own way, would have led to extensive mischief. Author: Richard Cecil |
| An angelic life, spent between ascending in prayer to fetch blessings from above, and descending to scatter them among men. Author: Robert Leighton |
| True prayer never comes weeping home: I am sure that I shall get either what I ask, or what I ought to have asked. Author: Robert Leighton |
| Prayer is the acid test of devotion. Author: Samuel Chadwick |
| The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, and prayer-less religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray. Author: Samuel Chadwick |
