Pray to God for patience. Patience is a flower of God’s planting. Pray that it may grow in your heart, and send forth its sweet perfume.
– Thomas Watson –
from The Godly Man’s Picture, 1666
Prayer
Pray! – Thomas Brooks
If you cannot pray as you would, nor as you should, pray as well as you can.
– Thomas Brooks –
1608-1680
Prayer and Praise – Charles Spurgeon
Prayer, like the root of a tree, seeks for and finds nutriment; praise, like the fruit, renders a revenue to the owner of the vineyard. Prayer is for ourselves; praise is for God. Let us never be so selfish as to abound in the one and fail in the other.
– Charles Spurgeon –
from Spurgeon on Praise
The Soul of Prayer – Thomas Brooks
The very soul of prayer lies in the pouring out of a man’s soul before the Lord, though it be but in sighs, groans, and tears. One sigh and groan from a broken heart is better pleasing to God than all human eloquence.
– Thomas Brooks –
Prayer Requires … – Hudson Taylor
Do not work so hard for Christ that you have no strength to pray, for prayer requires strength.
– Hudson Taylor –
Prayer Prepares the Heart – Andrew Murray
Prayer prepares my heart for receiving the Word of God from God Himself.
– Andrew Murray –
Good Praying – Austen Phelps
“Good prayers,” says an old English divine, “never come weeping home. I am sure I shall receive either what I ask or what I should ask.”
– Austen Phelps –
from The Still Hour: Communion with God in Prayer, 1859
Get Your Heart in Tune for Prayer – Robert Murray M’Cheyne
A great part of my time is spent in getting my heart in tune for prayer. It is the link that connects earth with heaven.
– Robert Murray M’Cheyne –
Know the Father in Prayer – Andrew Murray
He that has once learned to know the Father in prayer learns to pray confidently for others too. The Father gives the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him, especially when we ask for the sake of others.
– Andrew Murray –
from Teach Me to Pray