Quotes about Prayer
was exceptional in suffering, which was often by the choice of others, but exceptional in prayer, too, which was by his own choice. If more were strong in prayer, more would be suited to suffer. Prayer develops bone as well as groan, sinew as well as saintliness, fortitude as well as fire.
— Leonard Ravenhill
He who would teach the people to pray must first himself be given to prayer.
— Leonard Ravenhill
No man is greater than his prayer life. The pastor who is not praying is playing; the people who are not praying are straying. The pulpit can be a shopwindow to display one's talents; the prayer closet allows no showing off.
— Leonard Ravenhill
Prayer—the soul's blood. —GEORGE HERBERT
— Leonard Ravenhill
To make my weak heart strong and brave, Send the fire. To live a dying world to save, send the fire. Oh, see me on Thy altar lay My life, my all, this very day; To crown the offering now, I pray: Send the fire! —F. de L. Booth-Tucker
— Leonard Ravenhill
The sweet hour of prayer as a mid-week breather in the church has been reduced to a sweet twenty minutes of prayer.
— Leonard Ravenhill
Yet again in writing to a friend of John Smith he says, "I have often seen him come downstairs in the morning after several hours in prayer, his eyes swollen with weeping. He would soon introduce the subject of his anxiety by saying, 'I am a brokenhearted man; yes, indeed, I am an unhappy man, not for myself but on account of others. God has given me such a sight of the value of precious souls that I cannot live if souls are not saved. Oh give me souls, or else I die!
— Leonard Ravenhill
altered Asia, jaundiced the Jews, riled the Romans, taught the teachers, and pitied prison jailors. This man Paul, and another preacher called Silas, dynamited the prison walls—with prayer—and cost the taxpayers a load in order
— Leonard Ravenhill
Brethren, to our knees again,
— Leonard Ravenhill
Neglect of prayer is an effrontery to God, for by it we are saying that we have confidence in the flesh and can operate the spiritual life on a do-it-yourself basis.
— Leonard Ravenhill
Our praying, however, needs to be pressed and pursued with an energy that never tires, a persistency which will not be denied, and a courage which never fails. —E. M. BOUNDS
— Leonard Ravenhill
Reading seeks for the sweetness of a blessed life, meditation perceives it, prayer asks for it, contemplation tastes it.
— Leonard Sweet