"True prayer is the breathing of the life of God in the soul of man"
– Octavius Winslow (1808-1848).
“Don’t try to reach God with your understanding; that is impossible. Reach Him in love; that is possible.”
– Carlo Carretto.
“The first purpose of prayer is to know God.”
– Charles L. Allen.
“By prayer, the ability is secured to feel the law of love, to speak according to the law of love, and to do everything in harmony with the law of love.”
– E.M. Bounds
“The whole meaning of prayer is that we may know God.”
– Oswald Chambers.
“Prayer honours God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence, secures His aid.”
– E.M. Bounds.
“Prayer crowns God with the honour and glory due to His name, and God crowns prayer with assurance and comfort. The most praying souls are the most assured souls.”
– Thomas B. Brooks.
“The right way to pray, then, is any way that allows us to communicate with God.”
– Colleen Townsend Evans.
“Prayer is the force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician, I have seen men, after all other therapy had failed, lifted out of disease and melancholy by the serene effort of prayer. Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strength.”
– Dr. Alexis Carrel.
“Prayer is not merely an occasional impulse to which we respond when we are in trouble: prayer is a life attitude.”
– Walter A. Mueller.
“Do not pray by heart, but with the heart.”
– Anon.
“Prayers not felt by us are seldom heard by God.”
– Phillip Henry.
“Many pray with their lips for that for which their hearts have no desire.”
– Jonathan Edwards.
“In prayer the lips ne’er act the winning part, without the sweet concurrence of the heart.”
– Robert Herrick.
“When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart.”
– John Bunyan.
“I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.”
– Henry Ward Beecher.
“Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.”
– Søren Kierkegaard.
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