Actually, faith is most reasonable. What is more reasonable than that a creature should trust his Creator? Is it insane to believe in One Who can neither lie nor fail nor err? To trust God is the most sensible, sane, rational thing that a man can do. It is no leap in the dark. Faith demands the surest evidence and finds it in God’s unfailing Word. No one has ever trusted Him in vain; no one ever will. Faith in the Lord involves no risk whatever.
– William MacDonald –
Prayer is the preacher’s mightiest weapon.
– EM Bounds –
from Power Through Prayer
The devil smiles when we are up to our ears in work, but he trembles when we pray.
– Corrie ten Boom –
from Not Good If Detached
Prayer should be the means by which I, at all times, receive all that I need, and, for this reason, be my daily refuge, my daily consolation, my daily joy, my source of rich and inexhaustible joy in life.
– O. Hallesby –
from Prayer
Why do we not lay open our heart to God and beg Him to put into it whatever is most pleasing to Him?
– Jean-Nicholas Grou –
from How to Pray (18th Century)
Saints are often drowsy, and listless, and half asleep; but the word and Spirit of Christ will put life and vigor into the soul.
– Matthew Henry –
“What do you want with me?” I want you, not to be a convert to my opinions, but to be a member of Christ, a child of God, and an heir of his kingdom.
– John Wesley –
God’s plan with most of us appears to be a design to make us flexible, twisting us this way and that, now giving, now taking; but always at work for and in us.
– Elizabeth Prentiss –
from More Love to Thee
Bread for today is bread enough.
– EM Bounds –
from The Necessity of Prayer