Frederick William Robertson Quotes About Prayer

Quotes about: Prayer

• Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Prayer, Wish, Praying

  Frederick William Robertson (1871). “Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton”

• The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Strong, Prayer, Mean

  Frederick William Robertson (1866). “Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton”, p.34

• A life of prayer is a life whose litanies are ever fresh acts of self-devoting love.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Prayer, Self

  Frederick William Robertson (1871). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.721

• That prayer which does not succeed in moderating our wishes--in changing the passionate desire into still submission, the anxious, tumultuous expectation into silent surrender--is no true prayer, and proves that we have not the spirit of true prayer.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Prayer, Passionate Desire, Expectations

  Frederick William Robertson (1866). “Sermons ...”, p.33

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