Thomas Watson Quotes About Prayer

Quotes about: Prayer

• The angel fetched Peter out of prison, but it was prayer that fetched the angel.

  Thomas Watson

  Prayer, Angel, Prison

• A spiritual prayer is a humble prayer. Prayer is the asking of an alms, which requires humility... The lower the heart descends, the higher the prayer ascends.

  Thomas Watson

  Spiritual, Prayer, Heart

  Thomas Watson, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “The Godly Man's Picture”, Lulu.com

• God will fill the hungry because He Himself has stirred up the hunger. As in the case of prayer, when God prepares the heart to pray, He prepares His ear to hear (Ps. 10:17). So in the case of spiritual hunger, when God prepares the heart to hunger, He will prepare His hand to fill.

  Thomas Watson

  Spiritual, Prayer, Heart

• Prayer delights God's ear; it melts His heart; and opens His hand. God cannot deny a praying soul.

  Thomas Watson

  Prayer, Heart, Hands

  Thomas Watson, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “The Godly Man's Picture”, Lulu.com

• Satan's time of tempting is usually after an ordinance; and the reason is, because then he thinks he shall find us most secure. When we have been at solemn duties, we are apt to think all is done, and we grow remiss, and leave off that zeal and strictness as before; just as a soldier, who after a battle leaves off his armour, not once dreaming, of an enemy. Satan watches his time, and when we least suspect, then he throws in a temptation.

  Thomas Watson

  Dream, Prayer, Thinking

  Thomas Watson (2015). “All Things for Good”, p.21, Ravenio Books

• The prayer that is faithless is fruitless.

  Thomas Watson

  Prayer, Faithless

• Prayer is the soul's breathing itself into the bosom of its heavenly Father.

  Thomas Watson

  Prayer, Father, Breathing

  Thomas Watson (1838). “A body of practical divinity, consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster: with a suppl. of some sermons on several texts of Scripture”, p.516

• Make up your spiritual accounts daily; see how matters stand between God and your souls (Psalm 77:6). Often reckonings keep God and conscience friends. Do with your hearts as you do with your watches, wind them up every morning by prayer, and at night examine whether your hearts have gone true all that day, whether the wheels of your affections have moved swiftly toward heaven.

  Thomas Watson

  Spiritual, Morning, Prayer

  Thomas Watson (1741). “A Body of Practical Divinity Consisting of Above One Hundred and Seventy Six Sermons on the Lesser Catechism Composed by the Reverend Assembly of Divines at Westminster: With a Supplement of Some Sermons on Several Texts of Scripture to which is Added, the Art of Divine Contentment; Recommended to the Publishers, and Never Before Printed (except Once) in the Former Editions of this Book, Altho Printed Twenty Times by Itself”, p.173

• The Ediles among the Romans had their doors always standing open, that all who had petitions might have free access to them. The door of heaven is always open for the prayers of God's people.

  Thomas Watson

  Prayer, Doors, People

• Prayer is the offering up of our desires to God in the name of Christ, for such things as are agreeable to his will. It is an offering of our desires. Desires are the soul and life of prayer; words are but the body; now as the body without the soul is dead, so are prayers unless they are animated with our desires.

  Thomas Watson

  Prayer, Offering, Names

• Those prayers God likes best which come seething hot from the heart.

  Thomas Watson

  Prayer, Heart, Hot

  Thomas Watson, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor (2015). “The Christian Soldier”, p.29, Lulu.com

• A wicked man in prayer may lift up his hands, but he cannot lift up his face.

  Thomas Watson

  Prayer, Men, Hands

  Thomas Watson “A Body of Divinity”, Lulu.com

• Prayer as it comes from the saint is weak and languid; but when the arrow of a saint's prayer is put into the bow of Christ's intercession it pierces the throne of grace.

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  Prayer, Arrows, Grace

  Thomas Watson (2013). “A Body of Divinity”, p.238, Lulu Press, Inc

• Praising God is one of the highest and purest acts of religion. In prayer we act like men; in praise we act like angels.

  Thomas Watson

  Prayer, Angel, Men

  Thomas Watson “A Body of Divinity”, Lulu.com

• Thus it is in hell; they would die, but they cannot. The wicked shall be always dying but never dead; the smoke of the furnacedascends for ever and ever. Oh! who can endure thus to be ever upon the rack? This word "ever" breaks the heart. Wicked men do now think the Sabbaths long, and think a prayer long; but oh! how long will it be to lie in hell for ever and ever?

  Thomas Watson

  Christian, Prayer, Lying

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