To him who prays, and as he prays, the hour is sacred because it is God's hour
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.
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...
Our praying to be strong must be buttressed by holy living. The life of faith perfects the prayer of faith.
If we would have God in the closet God must have us out of the closet. There is no way of praying to God but by living to God.
Men would pray better if they lived better. They would get more from God if they lived more obedient and well-pleasing to God.
The more praying there is in the world the better the world will be the mightier the forces against evil everywhere.
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.
Prayer puts God's work in his hands-and keeps it there.
Private place and plenty of time are the life of prayer.
God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. They outlive the lives of those who uttered them.
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.
Non-praying is lawlessness discord anarchy.
Trouble and prayer are closely related. . . . Trouble often drives men to God in prayer while prayer is but the voice of men in trouble.
Prayer honors God acknowledges His being exalts His power adores His providence secures His aid.
Prayer is our most formidable weapon the thing which makes all else we do efficient.
Straight praying is never born of crooked conduct.
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...
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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