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“A spiritual prayer is a humble prayer. Prayer is the asking of an alms, which requires humility... The lower the heart descends, the higher the prayer ascends.”

Book:The Godly Man's Picture

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The Godly Man's Picture

This book provides a detailed portrayal of the qualities and virtues expected in a godly man, drawing from Christian teachings and values. more

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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

“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.”

Soul Body Desire Names Christ Prayer Offering Animated

Author:Thomas Watson

“Those prayers God likes best which come seething hot from the heart.”

Heart Prayer Hot Likes Seething

Book:The Christian Soldier

Source: The Christian Soldier

“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.”

Christ Prayer Grace Weak Saint Bows Thrones Arrows Pierce Intercession

Book:A Body of Divinity

Source: A Body of Divinity

“God will fill the hungry because He Himself has stirred up the hunger. As in the case of prayer, when God prepares the heart to pray, He prepares His ear to hear (Ps. 10:17). So in the case of spiritual hunger, when God prepares the heart to hunger, He will prepare His hand to fill.”

Heart Hands Spiritual Prayer Cases Praying Ears Hunger Hungry Gods Will Spiritual Hunger

Author:Thomas Watson

“Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.”

Today Tomorrow Late Yesterday Too Late Live For Today

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“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.”