Quotes by British Authors - Page 38

How it infuriates a bigot when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!
Logan Pearsall Smith
If I am right Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay If I am wrong O teach my heart To find that better way!
Alexander Pope
The granting of prayer when offered in the name of Jesus reveals the Father's love to him and the honor which he has put upon him.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
He that will learn to pray let him go to Sea.
George Edward Herbert
The Christian ministry is the worst of all trades but the best of all professions.
John Newton
Saints of the early church reaped great harvests in the field of prayer and found the mercy seat to be a mine of untold treasures.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
If we could all hear one another's prayers God might be relieved of some of his burden.
Ashleigh Brilliant
Lord till I reach that blissful shore No privilege so dear shall be As thus my inmost soul to pour In prayer to thee.
Charlotte Elliott
The spirit of prayer is the fruit and token of the Spirit of adoption.
John Newton
Prayer is a shield to the soul a sacrifice to God and a scourge for Satan.
John Bunyan
Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
Philip James Bailey
Prayer is the acid test of devotion.
Samuel Chadwick
Prayers are heard in heaven very much in proportion to your faith. Little faith will get very great mercies but great faith still greater.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.
Jean Ingelow
The man who prays grows and the muscles of the soul swell from this whipcord to iron bands.
F.B. Meyer
In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not. After that the idea that prayer is recommended to us as a sort of infallible gimmick may be dismissed.
C.S. Lewis
We ought not to tolerate for a minute the ghastly and grievous thought that God will not answer prayer.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
God's chief gift to those who seek him is Himself.
E. B. Pusey
God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face. A gauntlet with a gift in't.
Elizabeth Barrett-Browning
Beyond our utmost wants His love and power can bless To praying souls he always grants More than they can express.
John Newton
Who rises from prayer a better man his prayer is answered.
George Meredith
When I pray coincidences happen and when I don't they don't.
William Temple
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
Ask God's blessing on your work but don't ask him to do it for you.
Dame Flora Robson
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