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We can learn more in an hour praying, when praying indeed, than from many hours of rigorous study.
Prayer honors God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence, secures His aid.
When trust is perfect and there is no doubt, prayer is simply the outstretched hand ready to receive.
A severe apprenticeship in the trade of praying must be served in order to become a journeyman in it.
Bible revelations are not against reason but above reason, for the uses of faith, mans highest faculty.
Bible revelations are not against reason but above reason, for the uses of faith, man's highest faculty.
Faith does the impossible because it brings God to undertake for us, and nothing is impossible with God.
God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. They outlive the lives of those who uttered them.
Prayer, like faith, obtains promises, enlarges their operation, and adds to the measure of their results.
Prayer is God's plan to supply man's great and continuous need with God's great and continuous abundance.
The prayers of God's saints strengthen the unborn generation against the desolating waves of sin and evil.
Our praying, to be strong, must be buttressed by holy living. The life of faith perfects the prayer of faith.
The character of our praying will determine the character of our preaching. Light praying makes light preaching.
God requires to be represented by a fiery Church... two things are intolerable to Him-insincerity and lukewarmness.
We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. That is the teaching of Jesus Christ
If God is not first in our thoughts and efforts in the morning, He will be in the last place the remainder of the day.
Nothing is more important to God than prayer in dealing with mankind. But it is likewise all-important to man to pray.
The more praying there is in the world, the better the world will be, the mightier the forces against evil everywhere.
No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack.
Praying men are God's agents on earth, the representative of government of Heaven, set to a specific task on the earth.
Prayer-leadership preserves the spirituality of the Church, just as prayerless leaders make for unspiritual conditions.
In doing God's work, there is no substitute for praying. The men of prayer cannot be displaced with other kinds of men.
You will find out that in the measure you have allowed yourself to look back you have missed that which God has for you.
Prayer concerns God, whose purposes and plans are conditioned on prayer. His will and His glory are bound up in praying.
Faith accepts the Bible as the word and will of God and rests upon its truth without question and without other evidence.
Four things let us ever keep in mind: God hears prayer, God heeds prayer, God answers prayer, and God delivers by prayer.
Mans access in prayer to God opens everything and makes his impoverishment his wealth. All things are his through prayer.
if the devil can get the church to withdraw from prayer by believing reasonable excuses, the church is under his dominion.
Man's access in prayer to God opens everything and makes his impoverishment his wealth. All things are his through prayer.
Prayer breaks all bars, dissolves all chains, opens all prisons, and widens all straits by which God's saints have been held.
Men would pray better if they lived better. They would get more from God if they lived more obedient and well-pleasing to God.
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.
Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.
Prayer, in one phase of its operation, is a disinfectant and a preventive. It purifies the air; it destroys the contagion of evil.
The most important lesson we can learn is how to pray. Prayers do not die, prayers live before God, and God's heart is set on them.
Trouble and prayer are closely related. Trouble often drives men to God in prayer, while prayer is but the voice of men in trouble.
We can never know God as it is our privilege to know Him by brief repetitions that are requests for personal favors, and nothing more.
The preachers who gain mighty results for God are the men who have prevailed in their pleadings with God ere venturing to plead with men.
The Bible nowhere enters into an argument to prove the person and being of God. It assumes His being and reveals His person and character.
The life of the individual believer, his personal salvation, and personal Christian graces have their being, bloom and fruitage in prayer.
Prayer and a holy life are one. They mutually act and react. Neither can survive alone. The absence of the one is the absence of the other.
God shapes the world by prayer. The more prayer there is in the world the better the world will be, the mightier the forces of against evil
The resurrection of Jesus Christ was necessary to establish the truth of his mission and put the stamp of all-conquering power on his gospel.
God's cause is committed to men; God commits Himself to men. Praying men are the vice-regents of God; they do His work and carry out His plans.
That man is the most immortal who has done the most and the best praying. They are God heroes, God's saints, God's servants, God's vicegerents.
If prayer puts God to work on earth, then, by the same token, prayerlessness rules God out of the world's affairs and prevents Him from working.
God shapes the world by prayer. The prayers of God's saints are the capitol stock of heaven by which God carries on His great work upon the earth.
Christianity is not rationalism, but faith in Gods revelation. A conspicuous, all-important item in that revelation is the resurrection of the body.
Christianity is not rationalism, but faith in God's revelation. A conspicuous, all-important item in that revelation is the resurrection of the body.
No man can do a great and enduring work for God who is not a man of prayer, and no man can be a man of prayer who does not give much time to praying.