Do
not pray for easy lives; pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to
your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work
shall be no miracle, but you yourself shall be a miracle. Every day you shall
wonder at yourself, at the richness of life which has come to you by the grace
of God. - Phillips Brooks
Out of a
very intimate acquaintance with D. L. Moody, I wish to testify that he was a far
greater pray-er than he was preacher. Time and time again, he was confronted by
obstacles that seemed insurmountable, but he always knew the way to overcome all
difficulties. He knew the way to bring to pass anything that needed to be
brought to pass. He knew and believed in the deepest depths of his soul that
nothing was too hard for the Lord, and that prayer could do anything that God
could do. - R. A. Torrey
Prayer
is not appointed for the furnishing of God with the knowledge of what we
need, but it is designed as a confession to Him of our sense of the need. In
this, as in everything, God's thoughts are not as ours. God requires that
His gifts should be sought for. He designs to be honored by our asking,
just as He is to be thanked by us after He has bestowed His blessing. - Arthur W. Pink
Christ,
though he affirmed himself to be the Son of God, and his Father to be in him,
yet he taught not his disciples to direct the prayer to the Father in him, but
up to the Father in heaven; neither lift he up his eyes, or prayer, to his
Father in the sacrament, but to his Father in heaven. - William Tyndale
Prayer is
a sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the heart and soul to God,
through Christ, with the strength and assistance of the
Holy Spirit, for such
things as God has promised, or according to the Word, for the good of the
church, with submission, in faith, to the will of God. - John Bunyan
Do
not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument afterwards. Begin the
day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him.
- Hudson Taylor
He
that seeks God in everything is sure to find God in everything. When we thus
live wholly unto God, God is wholly ours and we are then happy in all the
happiness of God; for by uniting with Him in heart, and will, and spirit, we are
united to all that He is and has in Himself. This is the purity and perfection
of life that we pray for in the Lord's Prayer, that God's kingdom may come and
His will be done in us, as it is in Heaven. And this we may be sure is not only
necessary, but attainable by us, or our Saviour would not have made it a part of
our daily prayer. - William Law
Faith
is to the soul what life is to the body. Prayer is to faith what breath is to
the body. How a person can live and not breathe is past my comprehension, and
how a person can believe and not pray is past my comprehension too. - J. C.
Ryle
Do
not pray for easy lives; pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to
your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work
shall be no miracle, but you yourself shall be a miracle. Every day you shall
wonder at yourself, at the richness of life which has come to you by the grace
of God. - Phillips Brooks
Out of a
very intimate acquaintance with D. L. Moody, I wish to testify that he was a far
greater pray-er than he was preacher. Time and time again, he was confronted by
obstacles that seemed insurmountable, but he always knew the way to overcome all
difficulties. He knew the way to bring to pass anything that needed to be
brought to pass. He knew and believed in the deepest depths of his soul that
nothing was too hard for the Lord, and that prayer could do anything that God
could do. - R. A. Torrey
Prayer
is not appointed for the furnishing of God with the knowledge of what we
need, but it is designed as a confession to Him of our sense of the need. In
this, as in everything, God's thoughts are not as ours. God requires that
His gifts should be sought for. He designs to be honored by our asking,
just as He is to be thanked by us after He has bestowed His blessing. - Arthur W. Pink
Christ,
though he affirmed himself to be the Son of God, and his Father to be in him,
yet he taught not his disciples to direct the prayer to the Father in him, but
up to the Father in heaven; neither lift he up his eyes, or prayer, to his
Father in the sacrament, but to his Father in heaven. - William Tyndale
Prayer is
a sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the heart and soul to God,
through Christ, with the strength and assistance of the
Holy Spirit, for such
things as God has promised, or according to the Word, for the good of the
church, with submission, in faith, to the will of God. - John Bunyan
Do
not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument afterwards. Begin the
day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him.
- Hudson Taylor
He
that seeks God in everything is sure to find God in everything. When we thus
live wholly unto God, God is wholly ours and we are then happy in all the
happiness of God; for by uniting with Him in heart, and will, and spirit, we are
united to all that He is and has in Himself. This is the purity and perfection
of life that we pray for in the Lord's Prayer, that God's kingdom may come and
His will be done in us, as it is in Heaven. And this we may be sure is not only
necessary, but attainable by us, or our Saviour would not have made it a part of
our daily prayer. - William Law
Faith
is to the soul what life is to the body. Prayer is to faith what breath is to
the body. How a person can live and not breathe is past my comprehension, and
how a person can believe and not pray is past my comprehension too. - J. C.
Ryle