It is only when the whole heart is gripped with the passion of prayer that the life-giving fire descends for none but the earnest man gets access to the ear of God.
We can never know God as it is our privilege to know Him by brief repetitions that are requests for personal favors and nothing more.
Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element of prayer. Men must be in earnest when they kneel at God's footstool. Too often we get faint-hearted and quit praying at the point when we ought...
There is neither encouragement nor room in Bible religion for feeble desires listless efforts lazy attitudes all must be strenuous urgent ardent. Flamed desires impassioned unwearied insistence...
The possibilities of prayer are found in its allying itself with the purposes of God for God's purposes and man's praying are the combination of all potent and omnipotent forces.
Prayer is our most formidable weapon the thing which makes all else we do efficient.
The more praying there is in the world the better the world will be the mightier the forces against evil everywhere.
Natural ability and educational advantages do not figure as factors in this matter of prayer but a capacity for faith the power of a thorough consecration the ability of self-littleness an absolut...
The goal of prayer is the ear of God a goal that can only be reached by patient and continued and continuous waiting upon Him pouring out our heart to Him and permitting Him to speak to us. Only by...
Prayer honors God acknowledges His being exalts His power adores His providence secures His aid.
Prayer is a trade to be learned. We must be apprentices and serve our time at it. Painstaking care much thought practice and labour are required to be a skillful tradesman in praying. Practice in th...
Prayer is of transcendent importance. Prayer is the mightiest agent to advance God's work. Praying hearts and hands only can do God's work. Prayer succeeds when all else fails.
Non-praying is lawlessness discord anarchy.
By prayer the ability is secured to feel the law of love to speak according to the law of love and to do everything in harmony with the law of love.
God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. They outlive the lives of those who uttered them.
Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element of prayer. Men must be in earnest when they kneel at God's footstool. Too often we get faint-hearted and quit praying at the point where we ough...
Importunity is a condition of prayer. We are to press the matter not with vain repetitions but with urgent repetitions. We repeat not to count the times but to gain the prayer. We cannot quit pray...
To say prayers in a decent delicate way is not heavy work. But to pray really to pray till hell feels the ponderous stroke to pray till the iron gates of difficulty are opened till the mountains o...
Faith and hope and patience and all the strong beautiful vital forces of piety are withered and dead in a prayerless life. The life of the individual believer his personal salvation and personal...
We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. It surmounts or removes all obstacles overcomes every resisting force and gains its ends in the face of invincible hind...
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