In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
Whenever God is ready to do something new with His people, He always sets them to praying.
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
Prayer does not mean that I am to bring God down to my thoughts and my purposes, and bend his government according to my foolish, silly, and sometimes sinful notions. Prayer means that I am to be raised up into feeling, into union and design with him; that I am to enter into his counsel and carry out his purpose fully.
Remember, Christ's scholars must study upon their knees.
Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul.
If you want to know the religion of a man, do not look at how much he prays and fasts, rather, look at how he treats people.
Whether we like it or not, asking is the rule of the Kingdom. If you may have everything by asking in His Name, and nothing without asking, I beg you to see how absolutely vital prayer is.
God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.
The amount of time we spend with Jesus - meditating on His Word and His majesty, seeking His face - establishes our fruitfulness in the kingdom.
Prayer is nothing but the breathing that out before the Lord, that was first breathed into us by the Spirit of the Lord.
Oh, how strenuous is life! I know a little of it. Men "ought always to pray, and not to faint." How fierce the battle! I know something of the conflict, but I ought not to faint, because I can pray.
It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.
More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
True prayer is a lonely business.
Pray to be perfect, though material leaven Forbid the spirit so on earth to be; But if for any wish thou darest not pray, Then pray to God to cast that wish away.
The greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect understanding with God, and that alters my view of actual things.
Don't ever hesitate to take to [God] whatever is on your heart. He already knows it anyway, but He doesn't want you to bear its pain or celebrate its joy alone.
God, grant me strength to accept those things I cannot change.
You may pray for an hour and still not pray. You may meet God for a moment and then be in touch with Him all day.
One can believe intellectually in the efficacy of prayer and never do any praying.
Prayer is a virtue that prevaileth against all temptations.
Prayer, in one phase of its operation, is a disinfectant and a preventive. It purifies the air; it destroys the contagion of evil.
Just as in prayer it is not we who momentarily catch His attention, but He ours, so when we fail to hear His voice, it is not because He is not speaking so much as that we are not listening. We must recognize that all things are in God and that God is in all things, and we must learn to be very attentive, in order to bear God speaking in His ordinary tone without any special accent.
Next to the wonder of seeing my Savior will be, I think, the wonder that I made so little use of the power of prayer.
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