Inspirational Quotes by Assorted Authors

“A little lifting of the heart suffices; a little remembrance of God, one act of inward worship are prayers which, however short, are nevertheless acceptable to God.”

“We Christians too often substitute prayer for playing the game. Prayer is good; but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is nothing but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism...To your knees, man! and to your Bible! Decide at once! Don't hedge! Time flies! Cease your insults to God, quit consulting flesh and blood. Stop your lame, lying, and cowardly excuses. Enlist!”

“Pray in your family daily, that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God.”

“Prayer that runs its course till the last day of life needs a strong and tranquil soul.”

“For God loves to be entreated, He loves to be compelled.”

“Prayer is the first thing wherewith a righteous life beginneth, and the last wherewith it doth end.”

“Let your prayer for temporal blessings be strictly limited to things absolutely necessary.”

“Prayer is a virtue that prevaileth against all temptations.”

“Like an echo from a ruined castle, prayer is an echo from the ruined human soul of the sweet promise of God.”

“A certain joyful, though humble, confidence becomes us when we pray in the Mediator's name. It is due to Him; when we pray in His name it should be without wavering. Remember His merits, and how prevalent they must be. "Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace."”

“History belongs to the intercessors - those who believe and pray the future into being.”

“I don't like those mighty fine preachers who round off their sentences so beautifully that they are sure to roll off the sinner's conscience.”

“Think not that all is well within when all is well without, or that thy being pleased is a sign that God is pleased.”

“There is no greater punishment than that of being abandoned to one's self.”

“This [pride] is the strong castle that we all keep garrisoned against heaven in every one of our hearts, which God continually layeth seige unto.”

“Suspect everything that is prosperous unless it promotes piety and charity and humility.”

“Everything we do proceeds from a decision of will, involves our intelligence and perception, leads to emotional reactions or experiences, is approved or disapproved by the conscience, and is registered in the memory in complete perspective.”

“Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.”

“We pass our life in deliberation, and we die upon it.”

“Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.”