Samuel Chadwick Quotes About Prayer

Quotes about: Prayer

• Satan laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.

  Samuel Chadwick

  Prayer, Laughing, Kneeling

• Prayer turns ordinary mortals into men of power. It brings power. It brings fire. It brings rain. It brings life. It brings God.

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  Prayer, Rain, Men

• The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, and prayer-less religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.

  Samuel Chadwick

  Christian, Prayer, Laughing

• Satan dreads nothing but prayer. . . . The Church that lost its Christ was full of good works. Activities are multiplied that meditation may be ousted, and organizations are increased that prayer may have no chance. Souls may be lost in good works, as surely as in evil ways. The one concern of the devil is to keep the saints from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, and prayerless religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.

  Samuel Chadwick

  Prayer, Organization, Evil

• A season of silence is the best preparation for speech with God.

  Samuel Chadwick

  Prayer, Silence, Preparation

• Hurry is the death of Prayer.

  Samuel Chadwick

  Prayer

• The great souls who became mighty in prayer and rejoiced to spend three and four hours a day alone with God were once beginners.

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  Prayer, Soul, Three

• It takes us long to learn that prayer is more important than organization, more powerful than armies, more influential than wealth and mightier than all learning.

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  Prayer, Powerful, Army

• In these days there is no time to pray; but without time, and a lot of it, we shall never learn to pray.

  Samuel Chadwick

  Prayer, Praying, These Days

• Prayer is the acid test of devotion.

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  Prayer, Tests, Acid

• We give ourselves to prayer. We preach a Gospel that saves to the uttermost, and witness to its power. We do not argue about worldliness; we witness. We do not discuss philosophy; we preach the Gospel. We do not speculate about the destiny of sinners; we pluck them as brands from the burning. We ask no man's patronage. We beg no man's money. We fear no man's frownLet no man join us who is afraid, and we want none but those who are saved, sanctified and aflame with the fire of the Holy Ghost.

  Samuel Chadwick

  Prayer, Philosophy, Destiny

• The reason so many people do not pray is because of its cost. The cost is not so much in the sweat of agonizing supplication as in the daily fidelity to the life of prayer.

  Samuel Chadwick

  Prayer, Sweat, People

• True prayer is a lonely business.

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  Lonely, Prayer

• intensity is a law of prayer. God is found by those who seek Him with all their heart. Wrestling prayer prevails. The fervent effectual prayer of the righteous is of great force.

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  Prayer, Heart, Wrestling

• The prayer that prevails is not the work of lips and fingertips. It is the cry of a broken heart and the travail of a stricken soul.

  Samuel Chadwick

  Prayer, Heart, Broken

• There is no way of learning to pray but by praying. No reasoned philosophy of prayer ever taught a soul to pray. We know not what we should pray for as we ought, and if prayer waits for understanding it will never begin. We discover by using. We learn by practice. Though a man should have all knowledge about prayer, and though he should understand all mysteries about prayer, unless he prays he will never learn to pray.

  Samuel Chadwick

  Prayer, Motivation, Philosophy

• The Secret of Praying is Praying in Secret. The secret place of prayer calls for every faculty of mind and heart.

  Samuel Chadwick

  Prayer, Heart, Secret Places

• The Church gives more time, thought, and money to recreation and sport than to prayer.

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  Sports, Prayer, Giving

• Great grief prays with great earnestness. Prayer is not a collection of balanced phrases; it is the pouring out of the soul. What is love if it be not fiery? What are prayers if the heart be not ablaze? They are the battles of the soul. In them men wrestle with principalities and powers...
  ”The prayer that prevails is not the work of lips and fingertips. It is the cry of a broken heart and the travail of a stricken soul.

  Samuel Chadwick

  Prayer, Grief, Heart

• Prayer in secret is life finding expression in the realized Presence of God our Father.

  Samuel Chadwick

  Prayer, Father, Expression

• Praying solves the problems of prayer.

  Samuel Chadwick

  Prayer, Praying, Problem

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