 Prayer is a serious thing. We may be taken at our words. |
| Spread out your petition before God, and then say, "Thy will, not mine, be done." The sweetest lesson I have learned in God's school is to let the Lord choose for me. |
| I firmly believe a great many prayers are not answered because we are not willing to forgive someone. |
| If we do not love one another, we certainly shall not have much power with God in prayer. |
A man who prays much in private will make short prayers in public.
Source: Christian History, n. 25. |
I'd rather be able to pray than to be a great preacher; Jesus Christ never taught his disciples how to preach, but only how to pray.
Source: Leadership, v. 1, n. 1. |
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| Next to the wonder of seeing my Savior will be, I think, the wonder that I made so little use of the power of prayer. |
| Some people think God does not like to be troubled with our constant coming and asking. The way to trouble God is not to come at all. |
| We ought to see the face of God every morning before we see the face of man. |
| Careful for nothing, prayerful for everything, thankful for anything. |
| Prayer does not mean that I am to bring God down to my thoughts and my purposes, and bend his government according to my foolish, silly, and sometimes sinful notions. Prayer means that I am to be raised up into feeling, into union and design with him; that I am to enter into his counsel and carry out his purpose fully. |
| The Christian on his knees sees more than the philosopher on tiptoe. God sends no one away empty except those who are full of themselves. |
| If you pray for bread and bring no basket to carry it, you prove the doubting spirit, which may be the only hindrance to the boon you ask. |
| The world knows little of the works wrought by prayer. |
| Let us pray, and as we pray, let us make room for Jesus in our hearts. |
| Unless the Spirit of God is with us, we cannot expect that our prayers will be answered. |
| Every one of our children will be brought into the ark, if we pray and work earnestly for them. |
| The impression that a praying mother leaves upon her children is life-long. Perhaps when you are dead and gone your prayer will be answered. |
