The best prayers have often more groans than words.
– John Bunyan –
Prayer
Pray As If Everything Depended Upon It – William Booth
Work as if everything depended upon your work, and pray as if everything depended upon your prayer.
– William Booth –
The Law of Prayer – Leonard Ravenhill
The law of prayer is the law of harvest: sow sparingly in prayer, reap sparingly; sow bountifully in prayer, reap bountifully. The trouble is we are trying to get from our efforts what we never put into them.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
Learn to Pray, Pray to Learn – Leonard Ravenhill
We must learn to pray, and we must pray to learn to pray.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
Prayer Is Mighty – Leonard Ravenhill
Prayer is as mighty as God, because He has committed Himself to answer it.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
Christ Is Praying For Me – Robert Murray M’Cheyne
If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies. Yet distance makes no difference. He is praying for me.
– Robert Murray M’Cheyne –
Pray Hardest – Charles H. Brent
Pray hardest when it is hardest to pray.
– Charles H. Brent –
They Perish – Andrew Bonar
The saintly Andrew Bonar used to soak his pillow with tears every Saturday night in Scotland as people below trampled the streets returning from the taverns and shows. He would cry from the depths of his agonizing heart, “Oh! They perish, they perish!”
Lord, Make Thyself Always Present to My Mind – John Wesley
Lord, make Thyself always present to my mind, and let Thy love fill and rule my soul in all those places, companies, and employments to which Thou callest me. Amen.
– John Wesley –