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“Two went to pray? Better to say one went to brag the other to pray.”
“Do not pray by heart but with the heart.”
“We must lay before him what is in us not what ought to be in us.”
“In prayer the lips ne'er act the winning part without the sweet concurrence of the heart.”
“The cry of a young raven is nothing but the natural cry of a creature but your cry if it be sincere is the result of a work of grace in your heart.”
“Every time you pray if your prayer is sincere there will be new feeling and new meaning in it which will give you fresh courage and you will understand that prayer is an education.”
“When you pray rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart.”
“Prayer at its best is the expression of the total life for all things else being equal our prayers are only as powerful as our lives”
“And help us this and every day to live more nearly as we pray.”
“My words fly up my thoughts remain below Words without thoughts never to heaven go.”
“A wicked man in prayer may lift up his hands but he cannot lift up his face.”
“He who prays as he ought will endeavor to live as he prays.”
“We pray pious blether our will is not in it and then we say God does not answer we never asked Him for anything. Asking means that our wills are in what we ask.”
“It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers that we may not unsay them in our practice.”
“Our praying to be strong must be buttressed by holy living. The life of faith perfects the prayer of faith.”
“Search me O God and know my heart: try me and know my thoughts: and see if there be any wicked way in me.”
“When our will wholeheartedly enters into the prayer of Christ then we pray correctly.”
“If we would have God in the closet God must have us out of the closet. There is no way of praying to God but by living to God.”
“Though smooth be the heartless prayer no ear in heaven will mind it And the finest phrase falls dead if there is no feeling behind it.”
“Prayer is not eloquence but earnestness not the definition of helplessness but the feeling of it not figures of speech but earnestness of soul.”
