Heart Quotes - Page 21

• Sometimes when your child talks, your friends cannot understand what he says; but the mother understands very well. So if our prayer comes from the heart, God understands our language.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Mother, Prayer, Children

  Dwight L Moody (1987). “Prevailing Prayer”, p.74, Moody Publishers

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• Oh! men and brethren, what would this heart feel if I could but believe that there were some among you who would go home and pray for a revival men whose faith is large enough, and their love fiery enough to lead them from this moment to exercise unceasing intercessions that God would appear among us and do wondrous things here, as in the times of former generations.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Believe, Home

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2012). “The Spurgeon Series 1859 & 1860: Unabridged Sermons In Modern Language”, p.528, New Leaf Publishing Group

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• Shall I give you yet another reason why you should pray? I have preached my very heart out. I could not say any more than I have said. Will not your prayers accomplish that which my preaching fails to do? Is it not likely that the Church has been putting forth its preaching hand but not its praying hand? Oh dear friends! Let us agonize in prayer.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Hands, Giving

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• If we are to pray aright, perhaps it is quite necessary that we pray contrary to our own heart. Not what we want to pray is important, but what God wants us to pray. The richness of the Word of God ought to determine our prayer, not the poverty of our heart.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Prayer, Important, Want

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• Prayer does not mean simply to pour out one's heart. It means rather to find the way to God and to speak with him, whether the heart is full or empty.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Prayer, Mean, Doe

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• 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.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Hands, Agents

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.52, CCEL

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• 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 so doing can we expect to know Him, and as we come to know Him better we shall spend more time in His presence and find that presence a constant and ever-increasing delight.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Goal, Waiting

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.43, CCEL

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• 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.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Passion, Men

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.12, CCEL

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• 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 praying because heart and soul are in it. We pray "with all perseverance." We hang to our prayers because by them we live. We press our pleas because we must have them, or die.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Perseverance, Prayer, Soul

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.39, CCEL

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• No prayers can be heard which do not come from a forgiving heart.

  J. C. Ryle

  Forgiveness, Prayer, Forgiving

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• Sincerity is the same in a corner alone, as it is before the face of the world. It knows not how to wear two vizards, one for an appearance before men, and another for a short snatch in a corner; but it must have God, and be with him in the duty of prayer. It is not lip-labour that it doth regard, for it is the heart that God looks at, and that which sincerity looks at, and that which prayer comes from, if it be that prayer which is accompanied with sincerity.

  John Bunyan

  Prayer, Men, Two

  John Bunyan (1850). “The works of that eminent servant of Christ ...”

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• It is not the mouth that is the main thing to be looked at in prayer, but whether the heart is so full of affection and earnestness in prayer with God, that it is impossible to express their sense and desire; for then a man desires indeed, when his desires are so strong, many, and mighty, that all the words, tears, and groans that can come from the heart, cannot utter them.

  John Bunyan

  Strong, Prayer, Men

  John Bunyan, Henry Stebbing (1859). “The entire works of John Bunyan”, p.270

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• The truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it is burned into my heart by prayer.

  John Bunyan

  Prayer, Knees, I Have Learned

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• When an answer I did not expect comes to a prayer which I believed I truly meant, I shrink back from it; if the burden my Lord asks me to bear be not the burden of my heart's choice, and I fret inwardly and do not welcome His will, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

  Amy Carmichael

  Prayer, Choices, Answers

  Amy Carmichael (2016). “If: Devotional Edition”, p.68, Aneko Press

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• 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.

  Samuel Chadwick

  Prayer, Wrestling, Law

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• 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, Broken, Soul

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• If we do not abide in prayer, we will abide in temptation. Let this be one aspect of our daily intercession: "God, preserve my soul, and keep my heart and all its ways so that I will not be entangled." When this is true in our lives, a passing temptation will not overcome us. We will remain free while others lie in bondage.

  John Owen

  Prayer, Lying, Temptation

  John Owen, James M. Houston (2004). “Triumph Over Temptation: Pursuing a Life of Purity”, p.165, David C Cook

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• O, once in each man's life, at least, Good luck knocks at his door; And wit to seize the flitting guest Need never hunger more. But while the loitering idler waits. Good luck beside his fire, The bold heart storms at fortune's gates, And conquers its desire.

  John L. Bates

  Good Luck, Men, Doors

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• In the secret of my heart I am in perpetual quarrel with God that He should allow such things [as the war] to go on. My non-violence seems almost impotent. But the answer comes at the end of the daily quarrel that neither God nor non-violence is impotent. Impotence is in men. I must try on without losing faith even though I may break in the attempt.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  War, Men, Secret

  Mahatma Gandhi (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.89, New Directions Publishing

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• Without comprehension, the immigrant would forever remain shut - a stranger in America. Until America can release the heart as well as train the hand of the immigrant, he would forever remain driven back upon himself, corroded by the very richness of the unused gifts within his soul.

  Anzia Yezierska

  Hands, America, Forever

  "Hungry Hearts and Other Stories" by Anzia Yezierska, ("How I Found America", pt. 3), 1920.

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• Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look, a god-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles. There is a secret pride in every human heart than revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.

  William Hazlitt

  Respect, Pride, Order

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• No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Atheism, Want

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.219, University of Chicago Press

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• The right way to pray is to stretch out our hands and ask of One who we know has the heart of a Father.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Prayer, Father, Hands

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.111, SCM Press

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• Prayer is no fitful, short-lived thing. It is no voice crying unheard and unheeded in the silence. It is a voice which goes into God's ear, and it lives as long as God's ear is open to holy pleas, as long as God's heart is alive to holy things.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Voice, Long

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.3, CCEL

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• God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. The lips that uttered them may be closed to death, the heart that felt them may have ceased to beat, but the prayers live before God, and God's heart is set on them and prayers outlive the lives of those who uttered them; they outlive a generation, outlive an age, outlive a world.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Age, Generations

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.3, CCEL

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