12. Prayer

Pray without creasing. 1 Thessalonians 5:17

Tell God all that is in your heart, as one unloads one’s heart to a dear friend. People who have no secrets from each other never want for subjects of conversation; they do not weigh their words, because there is nothing to be kept back. Neither do they seek for something to say; they talk out of the abundance of their hearts, just what they think. > Francois Fenelon

What men usually ask for when they pray to God is that two and two may not make four. > Russian Proverb

Pray is not an argument with God to persuade him to move things our way, but an exercise by which we are enabled by his Spirit to move ourselves his way. > Leonard Ravenhill

Most of us have much trouble praying when we are in little trouble, but we have little trouble praying when we are in much trouble. > Richard P. Cook

There is nothing that makes us a person so much as praying for him. > William Law

You need not cry very loud: he is nearer to us than we think. > Brother Lawrence

Unless in the first waking moment of the day you learn to fling the door wide back and let God in, you will work on a wrong level all day; but swing the door wide and pray to your Father, and every public thing will be stamped with the presence of God. > Oswald Chambers

The angel fetched Peter out of prison, but it was prayer that fetched the angel. > Thomas Watson

What a person is on his knees before God, that he is – and nothing more. > Robert Murray McCheyne

Much of our praying is just asking God to bless some folks that are ill, and to keep us plugging along. But prayer is not merely prattle; it is warfare. > Alan Redpath

Prayer is conversation with God. > Clement of Alexandria

Since the lines have been cleared between the Lord and me, the telephone has never stopped ringing. > Bernard L. Clark

See also Proverbs 15:8; Matthew 7:7-11; Mark 11:24