Quotes by British Authors - Page 39

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
Prayer is the great engine to overthrow and rout my spiritual enemies the great means to procure the graces of which I stand in hourly need.
John Newton
Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language or music without atmosphere.
James Martineau
No heart thrives without much secret converse with God and nothing will make amends for the want of it.
John Berridge
He who ceases to pray ceases to prosper.
Sir William Gurney Benham
A man's state before God may always be measured by his prayers.
J.C. Ryle
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
In the war upon the powers of darkness prayer is the primary and mightiest weapon both in aggressive war upon them and their works in the deliverance of men from their power and against them as a hierarchy of powers opposed to Christ and His Church.
Jessie Penn-Lewis
Though we cannot by our prayers give God any information yet we must by our prayers give him honor.
Matthew Henry
To Mercy Pity Peace and Love All pray in their distress.
William Blake
An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
Walter Savage Landor
With faint praises one another damn.
William Wycherley
Some praise at morning what they blame at night.
Alexander Pope
Applause is the spur of noble minds the end and aim of weak ones.
Charles Caleb Colton
The true test of independent judgement is being able to dislike someone who admires us.
Sydney J. Harris
Among the smaller duties in life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising when praise is not due.
Sydney Smith
The advantage of doing one's praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
Samuel Butler
Patience and gentleness is power.
Leigh Hunt
Power tends to connect absolute power connects absolutely.
Peter Newman
Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.
William Pitt
In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.
Samuel Johnson
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell
Liberal - a power worshipper without power.
George Orwell
He was one of those men who possess almost every gift except the gift of the power to use them.
Charles Kingsley
The main task of a free society is to civilize the struggle for power. Slavery of the acquiescent majority to the ruthless few is the hereditary state of mankind freedom a rarely acquired characteristic.
R. H. S. Crossman
The only justification in the use of force is to reduce the amount of force necessary to be used.
Alfred North Whitehead
Poverty is no sin.
George Edward Herbert
O God! that bread should be so dear And flesh and blood so cheap!
Thomas Hood
People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.
T.S Eliot
This is one of the bitter curses of poverty: it leaves no right to be generous.
George Gissing
It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It's a blunder though and is punished as such.
Jerome K. Jerome
Poverty is an anomaly to rich people: it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
Walter Bagehot
Hunger is insolent and will be fed.
Alexander Pope
If you've ever really been poor you remain poor at heart all your life.
Arnold Bennett
A strange volume of real life in the daily packet of the postman. Eternal love and instant payment!
Douglas Jerrold
Go little letter apace apace Fly Fly to the light in the valley below - Tell my wish to her dewy blue eye.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
There is no reciprocity. Men love women women love children children love hamsters.
Alice Thomas Ellis
Wouldst thou both eat they cake and have it?
George Edward Herbert