Quotes by Clergymen - Page 4

Our prayers must mean something to us if they are to mean anything to God.
Maltbie D. Babcock
In prayer the lips ne'er act the winning part without the sweet concurrence of the heart.
Robert Herrick
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
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
Private place and plenty of time are the life of prayer.
E.M.Bounds
There is no need to get to a place of prayer pray wherever you are.
Oswald Chambers
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 Christian will find his parentheses for prayer even in the busiest hours of life.
Richard Cecil
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
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
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
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
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
The more praying there is in the world the better the world will be the mightier the forces against evil everywhere.
E.M.Bounds
It is impossible to conduct your life as a disciple without definite times of secret prayer.
Oswald Chambers
Natural ability and educational advantages do not figure as factors in this matter of prayer but a capacity for faith the power of a thorough consecration the ability of self-littleness an absolute losing of one's self in God's glory and an ever present and insatiable yearning and seeking after all the fullness of God.
E.M.Bounds
We have to pray with our eyes on God not on the difficulties.
Oswald Chambers
Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.
Thomas Fuller
Prayer is a trade to be learned. We must be apprentices and serve our time at it. Painstaking care much thought practice and labour are required to be a skillful tradesman in praying. Practice in this as well as in all other trades makes perfect.
E.M.Bounds
Non-praying is lawlessness discord anarchy.
E.M.Bounds
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
Prayer is of transcendent importance. Prayer is the mightiest agent to advance God's work. Praying hearts and hands only can do God's work. Prayer succeeds when all else fails.
E.M.Bounds
The goal of prayer is the ear of God a goal that can only be reached by patient and continued and continuous waiting upon Him pouring out our heart to Him and permitting Him to speak to us. Only by so doing can we expect to know Him and as we come to know Him better we shall spend more time in His presence and find that presence a constant and ever-increasing delight.
E.M.Bounds
Prayer honors God acknowledges His being exalts His power adores His providence secures His aid.
E.M.Bounds
The purpose of prayer is to reveal the presence of God equally present all the time in every condition.
Oswald Chambers
Every time we pray our horizon is altered our attitude to things is altered not sometimes but every time and the amazing thing is that we don't pray more.
Oswald Chambers
It is not so true that "prayer changes things" as that prayer changes me and I change things. God has so constituted things that prayer on the basis of Redemption alters the way in which a man looks at things. Prayer is not a question of altering things externally but of working wonders in a man's disposition.
Oswald Chambers
Prayer may not change things for you but it for sure changes you for things.
Samuel M. Shoemaker
By prayer the ability is secured to feel the law of love to speak according to the law of love and to do everything in harmony with the law of love.
E.M.Bounds
No heart thrives without much secret converse with God and nothing will make amends for the want of it.
John Berridge
The first purpose of prayer is to know God.
Charles L. Allen
I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation and there must be a vent.
Henry Ward Beecher
We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. It surmounts or removes all obstacles overcomes every resisting force and gains its ends in the face of invincible hindrances.
E.M.Bounds
Faith and hope and patience and all the strong beautiful vital forces of piety are withered and dead in a prayerless life. The life of the individual believer his personal salvation and personal Christian graces have their being bloom and fruitage in prayer.
E.M.Bounds
God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. They outlive the lives of those who uttered them.
E.M.Bounds
Applause is the spur of noble minds the end and aim of weak ones.
Charles Caleb Colton
The meanest most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man and then qualifies it with a 'but'.
Henry Ward Beecher
He was one of those men who possess almost every gift except the gift of the power to use them.
Charles Kingsley
Poor men's reasons are not heard.
Thomas Fuller
It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.
Charles Caleb Colton
The world has a way of giving what is demanded of it. If you are frightened and look for failure and poverty you will get them no matter how hard you may try to succeed. Lack of faith in yourself in what life will do for you cuts you off from the good things of the world. Expect victory and you make victory. Nowhere is this truer than in business life where bravery and faith bring both material and spiritual rewards.
Preston Bradley
It seems to me probably that any one who has a series of intolerable positions to put up with must have been responsible for them to some extent... they have contributed to it by impatience or intolerance or brusqueness-or some provocation.
Robert Hugh Benson
Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts.
Abel Stevens
He is happy that knoweth not himself to be otherwise.
Thomas Fuller
The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies but the thankful heart... will find in every hour some heavenly blessings.
Henry Ward Beecher
Those see nothing but faults that seek for nothing else.
Thomas Fuller
The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
Henry Ward Beecher
Clothes and manners do not make the man but when he is made they greatly improve his appearance.
Henry Ward Beecher
He that has a great nose thinks everybody is speaking of it.
Thomas Fuller
Any man can work when every stroke of his hands brings down the fruit rattling from the tree ... but to labor in season and out of season under every discouragement... that requires a heroism which is transcendent.
Henry Ward Beecher
A good garden may have some weeds.
Thomas Fuller
Each of us makes his own weather determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits.
Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Before it's too late and time is running out let us turn from trust in the chain reactions of exploding atoms to faith of the chain reaction of God's love. Love - love of God and fellow men. That is God's formula for peace.
Richard Cardinal Cushing
The dog is the god of frolic.
Henry Ward Beecher
Seeing's believing but feeling's the truth.
Thomas Fuller
What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
Henry Ward Beecher
Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.
Robert Burton
There is no friendship no love like that of the parent for the child.
Henry Ward Beecher
It is only the fear of God that can deliver us from the fear of men.
John Witherspoon
Fear is the soul's signal for rallying.
Henry Ward Beecher