 In these days there is no time to pray; but without time, and a lot of it, we shall never learn to pray. Author: Samuel Chadwick
Source: The Path of Prayer, p. 24. |
| Prayer is the acid test of devotion. Author: Samuel Chadwick |
| The great souls who became mighty in prayer and rejoiced to spend three and four hours a day alone with God were once beginners. Author: Samuel Chadwick
Source: The Path of Prayer, p. 32. |
| The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, and prayerless religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray. Author: Samuel Chadwick |
| The reason so many people do not pray is because of its cost. The cost is not so much in the sweat of agonizing supplication as in the daily fidelity to the life of prayer. Author: Samuel Chadwick |
| True prayer is a lonely business. Author: Samuel Chadwick |
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| The thermometer of a church is its prayer meeting. Author: Vance Havner |
| Pray often rather than very long at a time. It is hard to be very long in prayer, and not slacken in our affections. Author: William Gurnall
Source: A Puritan Golden Treasury |
| Prayer is nothing but the promise reversed, or God's Word formed into an argument, and retorted by faith upon God again. Author: William Gurnall
Source: A Puritan Golden Treasury |
| Praying is the same to the new creature as crying is to the natural. The child is not learned by art or example to cry, but instructed by nature; it comes into the world crying. Praying is not a lesson got by forms and rules of art, but flowing from principles of new life itself. Author: William Gurnall
Source: A Puritan Golden Treasury |
| When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't. Author: William Temple |
| If your prayer is selfish, the answer will be something that will rebuke your selfishness. You may not recognize it as having come at all, but it is sure to be there. Author: William Temple |
