What should we think of a person, who, being admitted into the king’s presence, upon business of the greatest importance, should break off in the midst of his address, to pursue a butterfly? Could such an instance of weakness be met with, it would be but a faint emblem of the inconsistencies which they who are acquainted with their own hearts, can often charge themselves with in prayer.
– John Newton –
If we would shut our eyes more often to this world in prayer to gaze upon heaven; then they would not bulge out our sockets with the lust of the eyes as we scan over earth’s treasures.
– GA Jarquin –
Make it an object of constant study, and of daily reflection and prayer, to learn how to deal with sinners so as to promote their conversion.
– Charles Finney –
A man is what he is on his knees before God, and nothing more.
– Robert Murray M’Cheyne –
The man who mobilizes the Christian church to pray will make the greatest contribution to world evangelization in history.
– Andrew Murray –
Prayer is not overcoming God’s reluctance, but laying hold of His willingness.
– Martin Luther –
You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.
– GK Chesterton –
A man may study because his brain is hungry for knowledge, even Bible knowledge. But he prays because his soul is hungry for God.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
The little estimate we put on prayer is evidence from the little time we give to it.
– EM Bounds –