Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin or sin will choke prayer.
– JC Ryle –
1816-1900
Prayer and Sin Can’t Coexist – JC Ryle
Prayer
Thanksgiving for Mercy – John Bunyan
A sensible thanksgiving for mercies received is a mighty prayer in the Spirit of God. It prevails with Him unspeakably.
– John Bunyan –
The Love of God – John Preston
The love of God is peculiarly the work of the Holy Ghost … Therefore the way to get it is earnestly to pray. … We are no more able to love the Lord than cold water is able to heat itself … so the Holy Ghost must breed that fire of love in us, it must be kindled from heaven, or else we shall never have it.
– John Preston –
1587-1628
The Necessity of Prayer – EM 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.
– EM Bounds –
A Good Life Moto – Dwight L. Moody
Careful for nothing, prayerful for everything, thankful for anything.
– Dwight L. Moody –
The Invitation of a Lifetime – Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth
Be thankful. God has commanded it—for our good and for His glory. God’s command to be thankful is not the threatening demand of a tyrant. Rather, it is the invitation of a lifetime—the opportunity to draw near to Him at any moment of the day.
– Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth –
The Link Between Prayer and Thanksgiving – Charles Spurgeon
There should be a parallel between our supplications and our thanksgivings. We ought not to leap in prayer, and limp in praise.
– Charles Spurgeon –
The Habit of Thanksgiving – Elisabeth Elliot
For one who has made thanksgiving the habit of his life, the morning prayer will be, “Lord, what will you give me today to offer back to you?”
– Elisabeth Elliot –
The True Man of God is Grieved by the Following – Leonard Ravenhill
The true man of God is heartsick. He is . . .
grieved at the worldliness of the Church,
grieved at the toleration of sin in the Church,
grieved at the prayerlessness in the Church.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
