Quotes by Authors - Page 113

We ought to act with God in the greatest simplicity speak to Him frankly and plainly and implore His assistance in our affairs.
Brother Lawrence
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
John Bunyan
The best prayers have often more groans than words.
John Bunyan
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
If we rely on the Holy Spirit we shall find that our prayers become more and more inarticulate and when they are inarticulate reverence grows deeper and deeper.
Oswald Chambers
Prayer is something deeper than words. It is present in the soul before it has been formulated in words. And it abides in the soul after the last words of prayer have passed over our lips.
O. Hallesby
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
Though smooth be the heartless prayer no ear in heaven will mind it And the finest phrase falls dead if there is no feeling behind it.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Be not hot in prayer and cold in praise.
Anonymous
Men would pray better if they lived better. They would get more from God if they lived more obedient and well-pleasing to God.
E.M.Bounds
If we would have God in the closet God must have us out of the closet. There is no way of praying to God but by living to God.
E.M.Bounds
We cannot talk to God strongly when we have not lived for God strongly. The closet cannot be made holy to God when the life has not been holy to God.
E.M.Bounds
When our will wholeheartedly enters into the prayer of Christ then we pray correctly.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Our praying to be strong must be buttressed by holy living. The life of faith perfects the prayer of faith.
E.M.Bounds
Praying which does not result in pure conduct is a delusion. We have missed the whole office and virtue of praying if it does not rectify conduct. It is in the very nature of things that we must quit praying or quit bad conduct.
E.M.Bounds
He who prays as he ought will endeavor to live as he prays.
John Owen
Straight praying is never born of crooked conduct.
E.M.Bounds
None can pray well but he that lives well.
Thomas Fuller
Prayer at its best is the expression of the total life for all things else being equal our prayers are only as powerful as our lives
A.W. Tozer
When you pray rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart.
John Bunyan
Every time you pray if your prayer is sincere there will be new feeling and new meaning in it which will give you fresh courage and you will understand that prayer is an education.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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
We must lay before him what is in us not what ought to be in us.
C.S. Lewis
God eagerly awaits the chance to bless the person whose heart is turned toward Him.
Anonymous
Our prayers must spring from the indigenous soil of our own personal confrontation with the Spirit of God in our lives.
Malcolm Boyd
Our prayers must mean something to us if they are to mean anything to God.
Maltbie D. Babcock
Do not pray by heart but with the heart.
Anonymous
God's ear lies close to the believer's lip.
Anonymous
Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie-I found that out.
Mark Twain
God hears no more than the heart speaks and if the heart be dumb God will certainly be dumb.
Thomas B. Brooks
Without the incense of heartfelt prayer even the greatest of cathedrals is dead.
Anonymous
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
Of all things guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer.
William Wilberforce
There is no need to get to a place of prayer pray wherever you are.
Oswald Chambers
When you enter your secret chamber take plenty of time before you begin to speak. Let quietude wield its influence upon you. Let the fact that you are alone assert itself. Give your soul time to get released from the many outward things. Give God time to play the prelude to prayer for the benefit of your distracted soul.
O. Hallesby
Private place and plenty of time are the life of prayer.
E.M.Bounds
Do not have as your motive the desire to be known as a praying man. Get an inner chamber in which to pray where no one knows you are praying shut the door and talk to God in secret.
Oswald Chambers
He who cannot pray when the sun is shining will not know how to pray when the clouds come.
Anonymous
Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
Satchel Paige
Trouble and prayer are closely related. . . . Trouble often drives men to God in prayer while prayer is but the voice of men in trouble.
E.M.Bounds
When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.
Oswald Chambers
The more helpless you are the better you are fitted to pray and the more answers to prayer you will experience.
O. Hallesby
Helplessness is unquestionably the first and the surest indication of a praying heart. ... Prayer and helplessness are inseparable. Only he who is helpless can truly pray.
O. Hallesby
Listen my friend! Your helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from your heart to the heart of God with greater effect than all your uttered pleas. He hears it from the very moment that you are seized with helplessness and He becomes actively engaged at once in hearing and answering the prayer of your helplessness.
O. Hallesby
My helpless friend your helplessness is the most powerful plea which rises up to the tender father-heart of God. You think that everything is closed to you because you cannot pray. My friend your helplessness is the very essence of prayer.
O. Hallesby
To pray is to open the door unto Jesus and admit Him into your distress. Your helplessness is the very thing which opens wide the door unto Him and gives Him access to all your needs.
O. Hallesby
If you are swept off your feet it's time to get on your knees.
Fred Beck
Oh God if I were sure I were to die tonight I would repent at once. It is the commonest prayer in all languages.
Sir James M. Barrie
Ordinarily when a man in difficulty turns to prayer he has already tried every other means of escape.
Austin O'Malley
Temptations which accompany the working day will be conquered on the basis of the morning breakthrough to God. Decisions demanded by work become easier and simpler where they are made not in the fear of men but only in the sight of God. He wants to give us today the power which we need for our work.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Lord if any have to die this day let it be me for I am ready.
Billy Bray
I feel it is far better to begin with God to see His face first to get my soul near Him before it is near another. In general it is best to have at least one hour alone with God before engaging in anything else.
E.M.Bounds
If you have ever prayed in the dawn you will ask yourself why you were so foolish as not to do it always: it is difficult to get into communion with God in the midst of the hurly-burly of the day.
Oswald Chambers
The entire day receives order and discipline when it acquires unity. This unity must be sought and found in morning prayer. The morning prayer determines the day.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
It is by no haphazard chance that in every age men have risen early to pray. The first thing that marks decline in spiritual life is our relationship to the early morning.
Oswald Chambers
Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything. Unless in the first waking moment of the day you learn to fling the door wide back and let God in you will work on a wrong level all day but swing the door wide open and pray to your Father in secret and every public thing will be stamped with the presence of God.
Oswald Chambers
When it becomes clear to us that prayer is a part of our daily program of work it will also become clear to us that we must arrange our daily program in such a way that there is time also for this work just as we set aside time for other necessary things such as eating and dressing.
O. Hallesby
Other duties become pressing and absorbing and crowd our prayer. "Choked to death" would be the coroner's verdict in many cases of dead praying if an inquest could be secured on this dire spiritual calamity.
E.M.Bounds
No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.
J.C. Ryle
The Christian will find his parentheses for prayer even in the busiest hours of life.
Richard Cecil