Quotes by British Authors - Page 26

Some people think that prayer just means asking for things and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for they think the whole thing is a fraud.
Gerald Vann
No answer to prayer is an indication of our merit every answer to prayer is an indication of God's mercy.
John Blanchard
Pray devoutly but hammer stoutly.
Sir William Gurney Benham
Work as if everything depended upon work and pray as if everything depended upon prayer.
William Booth
Before we can pray "Lord Thy Kingdom come " we must be willing to pray "My Kingdom go."
Alan Redpath
No prayers can be heard which do not come from a forgiving heart.
J.C. Ryle
It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.
C.S. Lewis
Take my will and make it Thine It shall be no longer mine Take my heart it is Thine own It shall be Thy royal throne.
Frances Ridley Havergal
We lie to God in prayer if we do not rely on him afterwards.
Robert Leighton
I sit beside my lonely fire and pray for wisdom yet: for calmness to remember or courage to forget.
Charles Hamilton Aide
Prayer for worldly goods is worse than fruitless but prayer for strength of soul is that passion of the soul which catches the gift it seeks.
George Meredith
God give me work till my life shall end And life till my work is done.
Winifred Holtby
O Lord let me not live to be useless!
Bishop John de Stratford
In Fellowship alone To God with Faith draw near Approach His Courts besiege His Throne With all the power of Prayer.
Charles Wesley
Do not work so hard for Christ that you have no strength to pray for prayer requires strength.
J. Hudson Taylor
Bear up the hands that hang down by faith and prayer support the tottering knees. Storm the throne of grace and persevere therein and mercy will come down.
John Wesley
God's promises are to be our pleas in prayer.
Matthew Henry
Let me burn out for God ... prayer is the great thing. Oh that I may be a man of prayer!
Henry Martyn
How those holy men of old could storm the battlements above! When there was no way to look but up they lifted up their eyes to God who made the hills with unshakable confidence.
Herbert Lockyer
We must wrestle earnestly in prayer like men contending with a deadly enemy for life.
J.C. Ryle
A sensible thanksgiving for mercies received is a mighty prayer in the Spirit of God. It prevails with Him unspeakably.
John Bunyan
Prayer in the sense of petition asking for things is a small part of it confession and penitence are its threshold adoration its sanctuary the presence and vision and enjoyment of God its bread and wine.
C.S. Lewis
God never denied that soul anything that went as far as heaven to ask it.
John Trapp
If your prayer is selfish the answer will be something that will rebuke your selfishness. You may not recognize it as having come at all but it is sure to be there.
William Temple
Whether we like it or not asking is the rule of the Kingdom.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
You are coming to a King Large petitions with you bring For his grace and power are such None can ever ask too much.
John Newton
Most Christians expect little from God ask little and therefore receive little and are content with little.
A. W. Pink
Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
Adam Clarke
We cannot all argue but we can all pray we cannot all be leaders but we can all be pleaders we cannot all be mighty in rhetoric but we can all be prevalent in prayer.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Prayer is not eloquence but earnestness not the definition of helplessness but the feeling of it not figures of speech but earnestness of soul.
Hannah More
Prayer is the soul's sincere desire.
James Montgomery
The best prayers have often more groans than words.
John Bunyan
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
John Bunyan
She heard the snuffle of hypocrisy in her prayer. She had to cease to pray.
George Meredith
And help us this and every day to live more nearly as we pray.
John Keble
It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers that we may not unsay them in our practice.
Matthew Henry
We must lay before him what is in us not what ought to be in us.
C.S. Lewis
The cry of a young raven is nothing but the natural cry of a creature but your cry if it be sincere is the result of a work of grace in your heart.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The Lord's Prayer may be committed to memory quickly but it is slowly learnt by heart.
Frederick Denison Maurice
When you pray rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart.
John Bunyan
Two went to pray? Better to say one went to brag the other to pray.
Richard Crashaw
In prayer the lips ne'er act the winning part without the sweet concurrence of the heart.
Robert Herrick
Of all things guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer.
William Wilberforce
Prayer to the patriarchs and prophets was more than the recital of well-known and well-worn phrases-it was the outpouring of the heart.
Herbert Lockyer
Lord if any have to die this day let it be me for I am ready.
Billy Bray
The Christian will find his parentheses for prayer even in the busiest hours of life.
Richard Cecil
No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.
J.C. Ryle
Sometimes we think we are too busy to pray. That is a great mistake for praying is a saving of time.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
To God your every Want In instant Prayer display Pray always Pray and never faint Pray without ceasing Pray.
Charles Wesley
Teach us to pray often that we may pray oftener.
Jeremy Taylor
We read of preaching the Word out of season but we do not read of praying out of season for that is never out of season.
Matthew Henry
Prayer time must be kept up as duly as meal-time.
Matthew Henry
When you cannot pray as you would pray as you can.
Edward M. Goulburn
I care not what black spiritual crisis we may come through or what delightful spiritual Canaan we may enter no blessing of the Christian life becomes continually possessed unless we are men and women of regular daily unhurried secret lingerings in prayer.
J. Sidlow Baxter
Grant us grace Almighty Father so to pray as to deserve to be heard.
Jane Austen
Do I want to pray or only to think about my human problems? Do I want to pray or simply kneel there contemplating my sorrow? Do I want to direct my prayer toward God or let it direct itself towards me?
Hubert Van Zeller
O thou by whom we come to God The Life the Truth the Way The path of prayer Thyself hast trod- Lord teach us how to pray.
James Montgomery
If we are willing to spend hours on end to learn to play the piano operate a computer or fly an airplane it is sheer nonsense for us to imagine that we can learn the high art of getting guidance through communion with the Lord without being willing to set aside time for it.
Paul Rees
All the prayers in the Scripture you will find to be reasoning with God not a multitude of words heaped together.
Stephen Charnock
One night alone in prayer might make us new men changed from poverty of soul to spiritual wealth from trembling to triumphing.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon