 It has been said that no great work in literature or in science was ever wrought by a man who did not love solitude. We may lay it down as an elemental principle of religion, that no large growth in holiness was ever gained by one who did not take time to be often long alone with God. Author: Austin Phelps |
| We are never more like Christ than in prayers of intercession. Author: Austin Phelps |
| Prayer is the preface to the book of Christian living; the text of the new life sermon; the girding on of the armor for battle; the pilgrim's preparation for his journey. It must be supplemented by action or it amounts to nothing. Author: Austin Phelps |
| Are you living for the things you are praying for? Author: Austin Phelps |
| The time of business does not differ with me from the time of prayer; and in the noise and clatter of my kitchen, while several persons are at the same time calling for different things, I possess God in as great tranquility as if I were on my knees. Author: Brother Lawrence
Source: The Practice of the Presence of God |
| The person who prays more in public than in private reveals that he is less interested in God's approval than in human praise. Not piety but a reputation for piety is his concern. Author: D.A. Carson |
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| Persistence in prayer for someone whom we don't like, however much it goes against the grain to begin with, brings about a remarkable change in attitude. Author: F.F. Bruce
Source: Hard Sayings of Jesus |
| God can pick sense out of a confused prayer. Author: Richard Sibbes |
| When we shoot an arrow, we look to the fall of it; when we send a ship to sea, we look for its return; and when we sow seed, we look for a harvest; so likewise when we sow our prayers, through Christ, in God's bosom, shall we not look for an answer and observe how we speed? It is a seed of atheism to pray and not to look how we speed. But a sincere Christian will pray and wait, and strengthen his heart with promises out of the Word, and never leave praying and looking up till God gives him a gracious answer. Author: Richard Sibbes |
| Learn that urgency in prayer does not so much consist in vehement pleading, as in vehement believing. He that believes most the love and power of Jesus will obtain the most in prayer. Author: Robert Murray McCheyne
Source: Comfort in Sorrow |
| O believing brethren! What an instrument is this which God hath put into your hands! Prayer moves Him that moves the universe. Author: Robert Murray McCheyne |
| I ought to pray before seeing any one. Often when I sleep long, or meet with others early, it is eleven or twelve o'clock before I begin secret prayer. I feel it is far better to begin with God-to see His face first, to get my soul near Him before it is near another. Author: Robert Murray McCheyne |
