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Prayer is always essential, but thought is essential, too, because prayer can be just an escape mechanism, almost at times a cry in the dark by people who are desperate and defeated. Prayer must be intelligent, and it is only to those who realize that their bodies are the temples of the Holy Ghost that the answer will be given and the power will come.
Spiritual Depression (173)Prayer0Spiritual Depression (173)
Prayer is the answer to the disease of self-confidence.
Prayer0I believe that prayer is the measure of the man, spiritually, in a way that nothing else is.
Prayer0One fervent prayer in secret will speak more for our sincerity than many in public.
Prayer0Works? Works? A man get to heaven by works? I would as soon think of climbing to the moon on a rope of sand!
Sep 29, 1770 Newburyport, Massachusetts. From the sermon: "How willingly would I live forever to preach Christ, but I die to be with him."Gospel0Sep 29, 1770 Newburyport, Massachusetts. From the sermon: "How willingly would I live forever to preach Christ, but I die to be with him."
I must preach the Gospel of Christ, and this I cannot now do without speaking of election.
Dallimore, Whitefield, II, p. 41Election0Dallimore, Whitefield, II, p. 41
God ordains our prayers as means of receiving what he plans to give, all to enrich our relationship to him. As the perfect Father of his children, he reserves the right to answer the requests we should have made rather than those we actually made when we have asked for the wrong thing; but he will take action one way or another in every situation of need that we bring before him.
Systematic Theology A LecturePrayer0Systematic Theology A Lecture
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
N/APrayer0N/A
Prayer must be fired with zeal and fervency.
Prayer0What is prayer? It is an offering up of our desires to God for things agreeable to his will, in the name of Christ.
Ten Commandments, 239Prayer0Ten Commandments, 239
All the prayers in the Scripture you will find to be reasoning with God, not a multitude of words heaped together.
Prayer0I never know a thing well, till it is burned into my heart by prayer.
Prayer0The secret of praying is praying in secret. A sinning man will stop praying, and a praying man will stop sinning.
Prayer0Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.
Prayer0A minister may fill his pews, his communion roll, the mouths of the public, but what that minister is on his knees in secret before God Almighty, that he is and no more.
Prayer0I desire to cast my crown at the feet of Jesus, and to cry grace! grace! Dear Sir, what a charming word is that? I am sure I can freely own, that all my salvation is of grace, unmerited, distinguishing, electing grace!
Grace0I am profoundly grateful to God that He did not grant me certain things for which I asked, and that He shut certain doors in my face.
Prayer0Do you pray? One of the things that happens in your prayer life is if you think that you gotta earn the favor of God you'll never be a prayer. If you understand the favour of God was granted you in Jesus Christ you'll have a tendency to run to Christ and not from him.
Rezweek 2010 Night 1Prayer0Rezweek 2010 Night 1
I'll tell you a story. The Archbishop of Canterbury in the year 1675 was acquainted with Mr. Butterton the [actor]. One day the Archbishop . . . said to Butterton . . . 'pray inform me Mr. Butterton, what is the reason you actors on stage can affect your congregations with speaking of things imaginary, as if they were real, while we in church speak of things real, which our congregations only receive as if they were imaginary?' 'Why my Lord,' says Butterton, 'the reason is very plain. We actors on stage speak of things imaginary, as if they were real and you in the pulpit speak of things real as if they were imaginary.'
Stout, Divine Dramatist (239-240)Preaching0Stout, Divine Dramatist (239-240)
For my part I cannot see how true humbleness of mind can be attained without a knowledge of [the doctrine of election]; and though I will not say, that every one who denies election is a bad man, yet I will say, with that sweet singer, Mr. Trail, it is a very bad sign: such a one, whoever he be, I think cannot truly know himself; for, if we deny election, we must, partly at least, glory in ourselves; but our redemption is so ordered, that no flesh should glory in the Divine presence; and hence it is, that the pride of man opposes this doctrine, because, according to this doctrine, and no other, "he that glories must glory only in the Lord.
Haykin, ed., Revived Puritan, pp. 97-98Election0Haykin, ed., Revived Puritan, pp. 97-98
God is always willing for us to hit the mark when He directs our arrows. When He teaches us to wrestle, He then intends we should prevail. Spiritual breathings are attended with spiritual blessings. Nothing will ascend to heaven but what came down from heaven. That prayer meets with no answer which is not offered up in faith.
Prayer0Do not many of you love to make a lie? And if it is done in your trade; you therefore look on it as excusable; but whether you believe it or not, it is sinful, it is exceedingly sinful. Though you may value yourselves as
https://www.ccel.org/ccel/whitefield/sermons.xxi.htmlLying0If God does not give His people what they ask for, it is because He knows they do not need it, and that it is not for their good.
Prayer0Let prayer be the key to open the morning and the bar to shut the evening.
Prayer0As a body without a soul, much wood without fire, a bullet in a gun without powder, so are words in prayer without spirit.
Commentary on Old/New Testaments 5 - 334Prayer0Commentary on Old/New Testaments 5 - 334
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