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Prayer Provoking Prayer Quotes
by Bob Hill
From: The Prayer Meeting Handbook, A manual and resource for leaders and those who desire
to be leaders of a Prayer Meeting
These are quotes that are designed to drive one thought deep into the mind and heart
of the believer concerning some aspect of prayer. They can be used in the prayer
meeting, in any correspondence, church communications such as bulletins and
bulletin boards, letters, calendars, for personal encouragement, to warm the soul for
personal prayer, SS classes, quote when praying before meals, prayer meetings in
homes, church staff meetings, publications, devotional times and devotional
material, daily planners etc.
William Law
He who will not pray until, on good grounds, he is sure that he has all right
affections and graces, will go to hell before his prayer begins.
The Power of Prayer, Samuel Prime p 259
He has mastered but little of prayer who knows little of the Spirit-groaning which
cannot be uttered.
The Greatest Force on Earth, Payne
Helplessness is the real secret and the impelling power of prayer.
Prayer, O. Hallesby
He that hears without ears understands us without our words. Yet as language is of
absolute necessity in social prayer, that others may join with us in our addresses to
God, so for the most part we find it necessary in secret, too, for there are few
persons of so steady and fixed a power of meditation as to maintain warm devotion
and to converse with God, or with themselves profitably, without words.
A Guide to Prayer, Isaac Watts, p 69
He who prays most prays best.
He works so naturally and so sweetly with our own spirits that we cannot with
certainty distinguish his working by any fervour or strength of impression. His
working is best known by the favour and relish of divine things that we feel in our
souls, and the consequent fruits of sanctification in our hearts and lives. A Guide to
Prayer, Isaac Watts, p 149
His Holy Spirit puts fresh ideas into the minds of praying people.
The Kneeling Christian
How dare we work for Christ without being much on our knees?
The Kneeling Christian
How many years of our short life are spent to learn the Greek, Latin and French
tongues, that we may communicate among the living nations or understand the
writings of the dead? Shall not the language in which we converse with heaven and
the living God be thought worth equal pains? How laboriously do some persons