 The best and sweetest flowers of paradise God gives to His people when they are upon their knees. Prayer is the gate of heaven. Author: Thomas Brooks |
| Prayer crowns God with the honor and glory due to His name, and God crowns prayer with assurance and comfort. The most praying souls are the most assured souls. Author: Thomas Brooks |
| Look, as a painted man is no man, and as painted fire is no fire, so a cold prayer is no prayer. Author: Thomas Brooks |
| God looks not at the oratory of your prayers, how elegant they may be; nor at the geometry of your prayers, how long they may be; nor at the arithmetic of your prayers, how many they may be; not at logic of your prayers, how methodical they may be; but the sincerity of them he looks at. Author: Thomas Brooks |
| Christ choosing solitude for private prayer, doth not only hint to us the danger of distraction and deviation of thoughts in prayer, but how necessary it is for us to choose the most convenient places we can for private prayer. Our own fickleness and Satan's restlessness call upon us to get into such places where we may freely pour out our soul into the bosom of God [Mark 1.35]. Author: Thomas Brooks |
| God sees us in secret, therefore, let, us seek his face in secret. Though heaven be God's palace, yet it is not his prison. Author: Thomas Brooks |
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| God's hearing of our prayers doth not depend upon sanctification, but upon Christ's intercession; not upon what we are in ourselves, but what' we are in the Lord Jesus; both our persons and our prayers are acceptable in the beloved [Eph 1.6]. Author: Thomas Brooks |
| Prayer is nothing but the breathing that out before the Lord, that was first breathed into us by the Spirit of the Lord. Author: Thomas Brooks |
| A wicked man in prayer may lift up his hands, but he cannot lift up his face. Author: Thomas Watson |
| The prayer that is faithless is fruitless. Author: Thomas Watson |
| Prayer is the soul's breathing itself into the bosom of its heavenly Father. Author: Thomas Watson |
| The Ediles among the Romans had their doors always standing open, that all who had petitions might have free access to them. The door of heaven is always open for the prayers of God's people. Author: Thomas Watson |
