In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
O, let the place of secret prayer become to me the most beloved spot on earth.
When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't.
Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers.
There has never been a spiritual awakening in any country or locality that did not begin in united prayer.
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.
More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.
God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.
There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful, than that of a continual conversation with God; those only can comprehend it who practice and experience it.
O, do not pray for easy lives.
Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul.
God shapes the world by prayer. The more prayer there is in the world the better the world will be, the mightier the forces of against evil
Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.
He who is too busy to pray will be too busy to live a holy life. Satan had rather we let the grass grow on the path to our prayer chamber than anything else.
Prayer at its highest is a two-way conversation - and for me the most important part is listening to God's replies.
The greatest tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, buy unoffered prayer.
A holy life does not live in the closet, but it cannot live without the closet.
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
To pray well is the better half of study.
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
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