Prayer is, paradoxically, both a gift and a conquest, a grace and a duty. Does that not mean, is it not a special case of the truth, that all duty is a gift, every call on us a blessing, and that the task we often find a burden is really a boon?
The first duty of every soul is to find not its freedom but its Master. - Peter Forsyth
The first duty of every soul is to find not its freedom but its Master.
- Peter Forsyth
Prayer is never rejected so long as we do not cease to pray. The chief failure of prayer is its cessation. - Peter Forsyth
Prayer is never rejected so long as we do not cease to pray. The chief failure of prayer is its cessation.
The greatest element in life is not what occupies most of its time, else sleep would stand high in the scale. Nor is it what engrosses most of its t… - Peter Forsyth
The greatest element in life is not what occupies most of its time, else sleep would stand high in the scale. Nor is it what engrosses most of its t…
We shall come one day to a heaven where we shall gratefully know that God's great refusals were sometimes the true answers to our truest prayer. - Peter Forsyth
We shall come one day to a heaven where we shall gratefully know that God's great refusals were sometimes the true answers to our truest prayer.
If within us we find nothing over us we succumb to what is around us. - Peter Forsyth
If within us we find nothing over us we succumb to what is around us.
The local church is the outcrop of the church universal. - Peter Forsyth
The local church is the outcrop of the church universal.
Our great need is not ardour to save man but courage to face God - courage to face God with our soul as it is, and with our Saviour as He is; to face… - Peter Forsyth
Our great need is not ardour to save man but courage to face God - courage to face God with our soul as it is, and with our Saviour as He is; to face…
It is not in our choice to spread the gospel or not. It is our death if we do not. - Peter Forsyth
It is not in our choice to spread the gospel or not. It is our death if we do not.
Prayer is the atmosphere of revelation, in the strict and central sense of that word. It is the climate in which God's manifestation bursts open into… - Peter Forsyth
Prayer is the atmosphere of revelation, in the strict and central sense of that word. It is the climate in which God's manifestation bursts open into…
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