Our Forefathers on Prayer

God can no more divest Himself of His attribute of hearing prayer than of being.

John Calvin

Pure prayers have pure blessings.

Thomas Goodwin

Those blessings are sweetest that are won with prayers and worn with thanks.

Thomas Goodwin

Good prayers never come weeping home. I am sure I shall receive either what I ask or what I should ask.

Joseph Hall

When we shoot an arrow, we look to the fall of it; when we send a ship to sea, we look for the return of it; and when we sow seed, we look for a harvest; and so when we sow our prayers into God’s bosom, shall we not look for an answer?

Richard Sibbes

Prayer as it comes from the saint is weak and languid; but when the arrow of a saint’s prayer is put into the bow of Christ’s intercession it pierces the throne of grace.

Thomas Watson

When thou prayest, rather be thy heart without words than thy words without heart.

John Bunyan

We must pray with our hand at the pump, or the ship will sink in sight of our prayers.

William Gurnall

Prayer is the gun we shoot with, fervency is the fire that discharges it, and faith the bullet that pierces the throne of grace.

John Trapp

Prayer is the sweat of the soul.

Martin Luther

Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven and meditation the eye wherewith we see God.

Ambrose

Prayer is the key of heaven; faith is the hand that turns it.

Thomas Watson

Prayer, it is the very natural breath of faith.

William Gurnall

The Bible is a letter God has sent to us; prayer is a letter we send to Him.

Matthew Henry

If we cannot go to the house of the Lord we can go by faith to the Lord of the house.

Matthew Henry

The nature of the divine goodness is not only to open to those who knock, but also to cause them to knock and ask.

Augustine

To pray rightly is a rare gift.

John Calvin

When God intends great mercy for His people, the first thing He does is set them a-praying.

Matthew Henry

Never tell me of a humble heart where I see a stubborn knee.

Thomas Adams

Cold prayers do always freeze before they reach to heaven.

Thomas Brooks

He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find Him the rest of the day.

John Bunyan

Satan rocks the cradle when we sleep at our devotions.

Joseph Hall

It is not much praying that is condemned... but much speaking; the danger of this error is when we only say our prayers, not when we pray them.

Matthew Henry

It is foolish to pray against sin and then sin against prayer.

John Trapp

Lifeless prayer is no more prayer than the picture of a man is a man.

Thomas Watson

If you would have God hear you when you pray, you must hear Him when He speaks.

Thomas Brooks

Prayer will make a man cease from

sin, or sin will entice a man to

cease from prayer.

John Bunyan

What a man is on his knees before God, that he is—and nothing more.

Robert Murray M’Cheyne

He who prays as he ought will endeavor to live as he prays.

John Owen

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