Pray hardest when it is hardest to pray.
Discipline
Joanna Laufer
Prayer is a choice. For us to pray to give thanks, or to voice our questions and doubts shows that we are choosing to leave an opening in our spirits. Without this opening, there is no vessel, no place into which God can breathe.
Samuel Chadwick
Prayer is the acid test of devotion.
Mary Slessor
The smallest things are as absolutely necessary as the great things.
Corrie Ten Boom
Don’t pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it. A man is powerful on his knees.
Francois Fenelon
Accustom yourself gradually to carry prayer into all your daily occupation — speak, act, work in peace, as if you were in prayer, as indeed you ought to be.
Hannah Whitall Smith
Look upon your chastening as God’s chariots sent to carry your soul into the high places of spiritual achievement.
Jan L. Richardson
The season of Advent means there is something on the horizon the likes of which we have never seen before… .What is possible is to not see it, to miss it, to turn just as it brushes past you. And you begin to grasp what it was you missed, like Moses in the cleft of the rock, watching God’s [back] fade in the distance. So stay. Sit. Linger. Tarry. Ponder. Wait. Behold. Wonder. There will be time enough for running. For rushing. For worrying. For pushing. For now, stay. Wait. Something is on the horizon.
Martin Luther
It is the part of a Christian to take care of his own body for the very purpose that by its soundness and well being he may be enabled to labour… for the aid of those who are in want, that thus the stronger member may serve the weaker member, and we may be children of God, and busy for one another, bearing one another’s burdens, and so fulfilling the law of Christ.
Martyn Lloyd-Jones
The divine Instructor has taken us under his wing and he is putting us through our exercises so that hands which hang down can be lifted up, and feet are straightened out, and a lame man is helped to walk. The Instructor is saying such things as, now “Keep moving, don’t let yourself get stiff, keep the joints moving, keep them as supple as you can.