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Prayer Quotes by Samuel Chadwick
- Hurry is the death of Prayer.
- Prayer is the acid test of devotion.
- The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, and prayer-less religion. He laughs…
- intensity is a law of prayer. God is found by those who seek Him with all their heart. Wrestling prayer prevails. The fervent effectual prayer…
- The prayer that prevails is not the work of lips and fingertips. It is the cry of a broken heart and the travail of a…
- Prayer turns ordinary mortals into men of power. It brings power. It brings fire. It brings rain. It brings life. It brings God.
- A season of silence is the best preparation for speech with God.
- In these days there is no time to pray; but without time, and a lot of it, we shall never learn to pray.
- The great souls who became mighty in prayer and rejoiced to spend three and four hours a day alone with God were once beginners.
- The reason so many people do not pray is because of its cost. The cost is not so much in the sweat of agonizing supplication…
- True prayer is a lonely business.
- The Church gives more time, thought, and money to recreation and sport than to prayer.
- It takes us long to learn that prayer is more important than organization, more powerful than armies, more influential than wealth and mightier than all…
- There is no way of learning to pray but by praying. No reasoned philosophy of prayer ever taught a soul to pray. We know not…
- We give ourselves to prayer. We preach a Gospel that saves to the uttermost, and witness to its power. We do not argue about worldliness;…
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- The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of… — Saint Augustine
- There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers. — Teresa of Avila
- For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God. — Teresa of Avila
- A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds. — Teresa of Avila
- I don't know what heavy penance I would not have gladly undertaken rather than practice prayer. — Teresa of Avila
- Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the… — Teresa of Avila
- Those who give themselves to prayer should in a special manner have always a devotion to St. Joseph; for I know not… — Teresa of Avila
- A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil… — Teresa of Avila
- Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone… — Teresa of Avila