Prayer

Quotations

C.S.Lewis

"The moment you wake up each morning, all your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals. And the first job each morning consists of shoving it all back; in listening to that other voice, taking the other point of view, letting that other, larger, stronger, quieter life come flowing in."

Martin Luther

"To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing."

"If I fail to spend two hours in prayer each morning, the devil gets the victory through the day. I have so much business I cannot go on without spending three hours daily in prayer."

Matthew Henry

"Prayer is the key in the morning and the bolt in the evening."

General William Booth

"Work as if everything depended on your work and pray as if everything depended on your prayer"

Anonymous (or at least unknown to me!)

"Satan trembles when he sees"
The weakest saint upon his knees

"Prayer is a conscious spreading out of our helplessness before God."

"Prayer is setting God at the centre of our attention."

"Prayer is the means God provides for bringing about the Spirit's power and promises into our lives."

"Apart from prayer, the promises of prayer remain locked away in his Word - like buried treasure."

"Spread the sail and the wind will many times fill it."

"It is the door of access to the heavenly father through which, as his adpoted sons and daughters, we receive his grace to do his work."

"The best prayers have often more groans than words and those words that they have are but a lean and shallow representation of the heart, life and spirit of prayer."

"When God inclines the heart to pray,
He hath an ear to hear;
To him there's music in a groan,
And beauty in a tear."

"When we rely on organization, we get what organization can do.
When we rely on money, we get what money can do.
When we rely on people, we get what people can do.
When we rely on prayer, we get what God can do."

"God does nothing except in answer to prayer."

Albert Edward Day

"The function of prayer is to set God at the centre of attention"

"Don't ever imagine that anything is too small to pray about. If it concerns you, it concerns God."

"God has a good many reasons for saying "no" to our prayers, and I am learning as I grow older that many of God's greatest mercies or gifts are His refusals."

"The most sacred duty to which you and I are called is prayer. It is purely spiritual work that every single one of us can participate in."

Hymns

What a friend we have in Jesus,
all our sins and griefs to bear!
What a privilege to carry
everything to God in prayer!
O what peace we often forfeit,
O what needless pain we bear,
all because we do not carry
everything to God in prayer.

Have we trials and temptations?
Is there trouble anywhere?
We should never be discouraged;
take it to the Lord in prayer.
Can we find a friend so faithful
who will all our sorrows share?
Jesus knows our every weakness;
take it to the Lord in prayer.

Are we weak and heavy laden,
cumbered with a load of care?
Precious Savior, still our refuge;
take it to the Lord in prayer.
Do thy friends despise, forsake thee?
Take it to the Lord in prayer!
In his arms he'll take and shield thee;
thou wilt find a solace there.