Ye Who Love God - C.H. Sprugeon

Ye who love God, of every place and every denomination, wrestle for your ministers; pray for them; for why should not God even now pour out his Spirit? What is the reason why we are to be denied Pentecostal seasons? Why not this hour, as one mighty band, fall down before him and entreat him, for his Sons' sake, to revive his drooping church? Then would all men discern that we are verily the disciples of Christ.

Taken from the book Spurgeon's Sermons by Charles Spurgeon 1834-1892

The Cause of Our Joylessness in Prayer - Austin Phelps

Even a doubtful principle of life, harbored in the heart, is perilous to the peacefulness of devotion. May not many of us find the cause of our joylessness in prayer, in the fact that we are living upon some unsettled principles of conduct?

Taken from the book The Still Hour: Communion with God in Prayer

by Austen Phelps 1859

May It Be Always In My Thoughts - Henry Scougal

Oh! that the holy life of the blessed Jesus may be always in my thoughts, and before mine eyes, till I receive a deep sense and impression of those excellent graces that shined so eminently in him; and let me never cease my endeavours, till that new and divine nature prevail in my soul, and Christ be formed within me. 

Taken from the book The Life of God in the Soul of Man

by Henry Scougal 1650-1678

Pray Without Ceasing - EM Bounds

Pray without ceasing.  Thes 5:17

Are you praying in everything without ceasing, in the closet, hidden from men, and praying always and everywhere? That is the personal, pertinent, and all-important question for every person.

Taken from the book The Best of EM Bounds EM Bounds 1835-1913

Grant That I May - William Law

"Grant that I may worship and pray unto Thee with as much reverence and godly fear, as if I saw the heavens open and all the angels that stand around Thy throne. Amen."

 

Form the book A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life

by William Law 1686-1761

Let "Deserved" Be Written On the Door - Richard Baxter

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

(Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV)

 

Let "deserved" be written on the door of hell, but on the door of heaven and life, - "The free gift".

Richard Baxter 1615-1691

As The Sails of a Ship - Augustus Toplady

As the sails of a ship carry it into the harbor, so prayer carries us to the throne and bosom of God.

Augustus Toplady 1740-1778