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“Prayer is the offering up of our desires to God in the name of Christ, for such things as are agreeable to his will. It is an offering of our desires. Desires are the soul and life of prayer; words are but the body; now as the body without the soul is dead, so are prayers unless they are animated with our desires.”

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Thomas Watson

Thomas Watson (1620-1686), a renowned British author, is known for his profound humanistic concerns and unique literary style, which has had a profound impact on British literature. more

“Make up your spiritual accounts daily; see how matters stand between God and your souls (Psalm 77:6). Often reckonings keep God and conscience friends. Do with your hearts as you do with your watches, wind them up every morning by prayer, and at night examine whether your hearts have gone true all that day, whether the wheels of your affections have moved swiftly toward heaven.”

Source: A Body of Practical Divinity Consisting of Above One Hundred and Seventy Six Sermons on the Lesser Catechism Composed by the Reverend Assembly of Divines at Westminster: With a Supplement of Some Sermons on Several Texts of Scripture to which is Added, the Art of Divine Contentment; Recommended to the Publishers, and Never Before Printed (except Once) in the Former Editions of this Book, Altho Printed Twenty Times by Itself

“Prayer delights God's ear; it melts His heart; and opens His hand. God cannot deny a praying soul.”

Heart Soul Hands Prayer Praying Ears Delight Deny

Book:The Godly Man's Picture

Source: The Godly Man's Picture

“One of the gravest perils which besets the ministry is a restless scattering of energies over an amazing multiplicity of interests which leaves no margin of time and of strength for receptive and absorbing communion with God.”

Energy Interest Prayer Ministry Communion Restless Peril Margins Praying To God Absorbing Multiplicity Receptive Communion With God

Author:Bonar Law

“The Prince of the power of the air seems to bend all the force of his attack against the spirit of prayer.”

Seems Spirit Force Prayer Air

Author:Bonar Law

“We have not been men of prayer. The spirit of prayer has slumbered among us. The closet has been too little frequented and delighted in. We have allowed business, study or active labor to interfere with our closet-hours. And the feverish atmosphere in which both the church and the nation are enveloped has found its way into our prayer closets.”