Monday Quote!

Roger Ascham 1515-1568

I said…. How, and why, young children, were sooner allured by love,

than driven by beating, to attain good learning.

The Schoolmaster (1570) preface

Monday Quote!

Dr. Thomas Arnold 1795-1842

My object will be, if possible to form Christian men,

for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make.

A letter, in 1828, on the appointment to Headmaster of Rugby.

Monday Quote!

Richard Bancroft 1544-1610

Where Christ erects His Church, the devil in the same churchyard will have his chapel.

Sermon at Paul’s Cross Feb. 9, 1588

Quotes on Prayer! XII

1 Thessalonians 5:16-18; Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless. The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.

Billy Graham

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but shall be the miracle.

Phillips Brooks

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

Victor Hugo

Good Shepherd and Guardian of our souls, we adore You. We adore You in Spirit and in Truth. Let us not lose heart, except to make more room for You in our hearts. Amen.

St. Francis of Assisi

Prayer is striking the winning blow. Service is gathering up the results.

S. D. Gordon

Prayer should never be an excuse for inaction. Nehemiah prayed, but he also set guards for protection. He used common sense. As a result, what had not been done in a hundred years’ time was finished in fifty-two days.

Corrie ten Boom

Nothing is so costly, so exorbitant, so extortionate, as that which is bought by prayer. While, on the other hand, nothing is so truly and everlastingly enriching as that which is gotten and held by prayer, and by prayer alone.

Alexander Whyte

The answer to a prayer request may indeed be long-delayed, but there is no delay at all in an answer to the prayer itself. When we cry out there is immediately an answer speedily God rushes to help. The answer may be the squeeze of the Father’s hand on ours, the quiet comfort of the Father’s voice, the reassurance of the Father’s presence even though the stresses and pressures are still evident.

Emilie Barnes 

The end we ought to propose to ourselves is to become, in this life, the most perfect worshipers of God we can possibly be, as we hope to be through all eternity.

Brother Lawrence, a sixteenth-century monk

Somebody once said God feeds the sparrow, but God never throws the food in the nest. Christ like men, who are wise never make prayer a substitute for work, nor work an excuse not to pray.

Unknown 

Quotes on Prayer! XI

Luke 18: 1; Then He spoke a parable to them, that men always ought to pray and not lose heart.

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness or else forgiving another.

Jean Paul Richter

I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me.

Dietrich Bonboeffer 

When I get depressed about my present failures, I ask God to remind me of my true identity: one who will be made perfect and has already been forgiven. 

Philip Yancey

I sit beside my lonely fire and pray for wisdom: for calmness to remember or courage to forget.

Charles Hamilton Aide’

Forgiving others has to become a way of life. Something we do on a day-by-day basis. Because we are prone to blindness when it comes to our unforgiving attitudes, we can’t always see it when we have them. But God will show us the truth if we just ask Him to. The problem is, too often we don’t ask.

Stormie Omartian

Dear Lord and Father of mankind, Forgive our foolish ways! Reclothe us in our rightful mind, In purer lives thy service find, In deeper reverence, praise.

John Greenleaf Whittier

We the believers in our nation, must pray that God will wake His people out of numbness, spiritual apathy, and sleep  in order to understand their role in leading people on the path of reconciliation. 

Jack Hayford

Our real work is prayer. What good is a could iron of our frantic little efforts unless first we heat it in the furnace of our prayer? Only heat will diffuse heat. 

Mother Maribel

Mercy is getting down on your hands and knees and doing what you can do to restore dignity to someone whose life has been broken by sin ( whether his own or that of someone else).

Sinclair Ferguson

A prayer to be said when the world has gotten you down and you feel rotten, and you’re too doggone tired to pray, and you’re in a big hurry, and besides, you’re mad at everybody: HELP. 

Charles Swindoll 

Quotes on Prayer! X

NKJ Mark 10:51; So Jesus answered and said to him, “What do you want Me to do for you”

The Bible is the key to finding God’s Will when we pray, providing balance and meaning. Most of all, using the Word of God in prayer is about as close as we can get to the Living Word, the Lord Jesus. If we’re going to bring our needs before His throne, praying in His Name . . . it makes sense to speak in His language. It’s something I’ve learned from my friend, Bunny . . . it’s something I’ve learned from the Lord! 

Joni Eareckson Tada 

When we approach God, our Father, we are drawing close to Him who completely understands us.

Phillip Keller

Because there is a devil. he is cunning; he is mighty; he never rests; he is continually plotting the down fall of the children of God. If the child of God relaxes in prayer, the devil will succeed in ensnaring him.

R. A. Torrey

The first duty of love is to listen.

Paul Tillieb 

God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, and thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in ’t. 

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Would to God you could forget everything else, and cry out, O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death? . . . Because it is when a man is brought to this confession that deliverance is at hand.

Andrew Murray 

God throws our sins into the depths of the sea. I like to think that He puts a “No Fishing Allowed” sign there. And this is necessary because the devil loves to fish up forgiven sin; he accuses us day and night.

Corrie Ten Boom

Our prayer and God’s mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends.

Mark Hopkins

There is nothing that makes us love a man so much as praying for him.

William Law

Only one petition in the Lord’s Prayer has any condition attached to it: it is the petition for forgiveness. 

William Temple

Quotes on Prayer! IX

 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18; Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

Many a man … has learned the lesson, It is impossible with men, and then he gives up in helpless despair, and lives a wretched Christian life, without joy, or strength, or victory, And Why? Because he does not humble himself to learn that other lesson: With God all things are possible.

Andrew Murray 

Prayer is asking for rain; faith is carrying the umbrella.

John Mason

When your life is going along as smooth as can be, take time to call home to our heavenly Father. Just like a parent waiting for a child to call, God also longs to hear from us, And the best thing of all is knowing we will never, ever get a busy signal.

Anita Corrine Donihue

Pray! Jesus says. But when you do, forget about yourself. And forget about others. Lock yourself in, secretly, quietly, with the Lord. He sees what you do in secret, and that is all that really matters.

Sinclair Ferguson

Prayer is literally talking things over in confidence — in full confidence with God, Sometimes the substitution of the word “Confidence” for the word “faith” helps.

Eugenia Price

An important thing to remember when praying is that Jesus is our Advocate before the Father. When we begin or end our prayers with “in the name of Jesus,” it is just as if Jesus Himself is saying, “Father this a prayer from your beloved child.”

Corrie ten Boom

I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is; Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Peace Pilgrim

We pray “Our Father,” not “My Father” ….. to remind us that we share our spiritual privileges with all the people of God.

Sinclair Ferguson

Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still.

E. M. Bounds

You must not say or write down a resolution in your journal that “ I will pray more.” You cannot force it. But let the axe come to the root of the tree; cut down the carnal mind. How can you cut it down? You cannot, but let the Holy Spirit of God come …. And then you will learn to love prayer and love God and your neighbor.

Andrew Murray

Quotes on Prayer! IIX

 II Timothy 2:1; You therefore, my son be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

Kahlil Gibran

You shall find this to be God’s usual course: not to give His children the taste of His delights till they begin to perspire in seeking after them.

Richard Baxter

In ways too innumerable to mention does the Lord work out everything according to His own will. He is never disdain to His people’s needs, He will never disdain their cries for help, but in every hour of need He is on hand to bless.

H. A. Ironside

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

Socrates

Prayer is ordained to this end that we should confess our sins, our needs to God, and bare our hearts to Him, as children lay their troubles in full confidence before their parents.

John Calvin

I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.

Mother Teresa

As a camel kneels before his master to have him remove his burden at the end of the day, so kneel each night and let the Master take your burden.

Corrie Ten Boom

Perseverance is not resignation, putting up with things the way they are, staying in the same old rut year after year, or being a doormat for people to wipe their feet on. Endurance is not a desperate hanging on but a traveling from strength to strength.

Eugene Peterson

Those who know [God] as Father, who sense His love and concern for us, come daily, not only asking in humility for our bread but deeply grateful for the food already supplied.

W.  Phillip Keller

I have often wished I was a more decent man … Nevertheless, amid the greatest difficulties of administration, when I could not see any other resort, I would my whole reliance upon God.

Abraham Lincoln

Quotes on Prayer! VII

 And the king was told to go and dip himself in the Jordan river seven times and he would be clean.

Persevere with patience in your prayer, and repulse the cares and doubts that arise within you.

Evagrios the Solitary

Perseverance is the sister of patience, the daughter of constancy, the friend of peace, the cementer of friendships, the bond of harmony, and the bulwark of holiness.

Bernard of Clairvaux 

Patient waiting is often the highest way of doing God’s will.

Jeremy Collier

Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.

William Barclay

Every evening, I turn worries over to God. He’s going to be up all night anyway.

Mary C. Crowley

May I be patient! It is so difficult to make real what one believes, and to make these trails, as they are intended, real blessings.

John Henry Newman

Patience is a fruit that cannot be picked until it is fully ripened. It will have to endure variable temperatures, wind, sun, and rain before its sweetness is accomplished within us. The result – an unshakable cheer and a bone-marrow belief that Jesus truly has overcome the world.

Patsy Clairmont

The great thing about growing patience is one is never at a loss for opportunities!

Unknown 

We always have God’s full attention. Our part is to give Him ours.

Eugenia Price

He who waits on God never waits too long!

Chuck Wagner

Quotes on Prayer! VI

Quotes of wisdom from the saints of the past I pray that their lessons learned may be applied to my heart and yours, Amen.

It is wonderful the effect of a single verse of Scripture when the Spirit of God applies it to the soul. What power would come upon the soul if we would grasp a single line of Scripture and suck the honey out of it till our soul is filled with sweetness.

C. H. Spurgeon

But what does asking for the Kingdom mean? A Kingdom is the domain of a King. Praying for God’s Kingdom to come is, more than anything else, asking for His rule or governance to be released into a situation. Whether it be for a nation, a city, an organization, a home, or an individual, when we ask for the Kingdom we are saying, “God, would You come and rule in this affair?” And when God’s rule is manifested, all is well.

Dutch Sheets

If a church prays in unity and are of one accord that church will never become a drifting ghost ship manned with dead man’s bones.

 Thomas

O Almighty God, who hast built thy Church upon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the head corner-stone; Grant us so to be joined together in unity of spirit by their doctrine, that we may be made a Holy Temple acceptable unto Thee. Amen

Book of Common Prayer

When Jesus uttered the simple request to His Father, “ Thy Kingdom come,” He was not only thinking of the Messianic Kingdom, but also implied that He was inviting Him to establish His Kingdom in the hearts and lives of men.

W. Phillip Keller

God never ceases to speak to us, but the noise of the world without and the tumult of  our passions within bewilder us and prevent us from listening to Him.

Francois Fenelon 

The sooner I forget myself in the desire that He may be glorified, the richer will the blessing be that prayer will bring to myself. 

Andrew Murray

As you read through the Bible, write down in your journal every time God asks a question. As you go through your day, try to answer that question, with words and actions.

Mark Buchanan 

Lord, there are times when I am so busy sending panic memos off to You that I fail to discern Your voice assuring me that Your Grace is sufficient. 

A. W. Tozer

They who have steeped their souls in prayer 

Can every anguish calmly bear.

Richard Monckton Milnes Houghton