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.
Men would pray better if they lived better. They would get more from God if they lived more obedient and well-pleasing to God.
Prayer puts God's work in his hands-and keeps it there.
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...
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.
Private place and plenty of time are the life of prayer.
The more praying there is in the world the better the world will be the mightier the forces against evil everywhere.
It is hard to wait and press and pray and hear no voice but stay till God answers.
God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. They outlive the lives of those who uttered them.
Straight praying is never born of crooked conduct.
Our praying to be strong must be buttressed by holy living. The life of faith perfects the prayer of faith.
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...
Non-praying is lawlessness discord anarchy.
Other duties become pressing and absorbing and crowd our prayer. "Choked to death" would be the coroner's verdict in many cases of dead praying if an inquest could be secured on this dire spiritual c...
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...
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 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.
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 like faith obtains promises enlarges their operation and adds to the measure of their results.
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