Occupation: Author Birth: August 15, 1835 Death: August 24, 1913
God is waiting to be put to the test by His people in prayer. He delights in being put to the test on His promises. It is His highest pleasure to ans….
No man can do a great and enduring work for God who is not a man of prayer, and no man can be a man of prayer who does not give much time to praying..
Only God can move mountains, but faith and prayer can move God.
We can never expect to grow in the likeness of our Lord unless we follow His example and give more time to communion with the Father. A revival of re….
He who is too busy to pray will be too busy to live a holy life. Satan had rather we let the grass grow on the path to our prayer chamber than anythi….
The word of God is the food by which prayer is nourished and made strong..
Trust perfected is prayer perfected. Trust looks to receive the thing asked for and gets it. Trust is not a belief that God can bless or that He will….
Prayer honors God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence, secures His aid..
Prayer is far-reaching in its influence and worldwide in its effects. It affects all men, affects them everywhere, and affects them in all things. It….
Prayer breaks all bars, dissolves all chains, opens all prisons, and widens all straits by which God's saints have been held..
Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still..
If God is not first in our thoughts and efforts in the morning, He will be in the last place the remainder of the day..
The men who have done the most for God in this world have been early on their knees..
No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack..
The story of every great Christian achievement is the history of answered prayer..
The most important lesson we can learn is how to pray. Prayers do not die, prayers live before God, and God's heart is set on them..
Paul, Luther, Wesley —what would these chosen ones of God be without the distinguishing and controlling element of prayer? They were leaders for God ….
Enthusiasm is more active than faith, though enthusiasm cannot remove mountains nor call into action any of the omnipotent forces which faith can com….
Prayer is our most formidable weapon, the thing which makes all else we do efficient..
I think Christians fail so often to get answers to their prayers because they do not wait long enough on God. They just drop down and say a few words….
All God's plans have the mark of the cross on them, and all His plans have death to self in them..