He offered a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed kneeling and praying at the bottom of the sea.
Prayer is a serious thing. We may be taken at our words.
Prayer at its best is the expression of the total life, for all things else being equal, our prayers are only as powerful as our lives
And help us, this and every day, to live more nearly as we pray.
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
She heard the snuffle of hypocrisy in her prayer. She had to cease to pray.
None can pray well but he that lives well.
Straight praying is never born of crooked conduct.
A wicked man in prayer may lift up his hands, but he cannot lift up his face.
He who prays as he ought, will endeavor to live as he prays.
We pray pious blether, our will is not in it, and then we say God does not answer; we never asked Him for anything. Asking means that our wills are in what we ask.
It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice.
Praying which does not result in pure conduct is a delusion. We have missed the whole office and virtue of praying if it does not rectify conduct. It is in the very nature of things that we must quit praying, or quit bad conduct.
Our praying, to be strong, must be buttressed by holy living. The life of faith perfects the prayer of faith.
Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: and see if there be any wicked way in me.
When our will wholeheartedly enters into the prayer of Christ, then we pray correctly.
We cannot talk to God strongly when we have not lived for God strongly. The closet cannot be made holy to God when the life has not been holy to God.
If we would have God in the closet, God must have us out of the closet. There is no way of praying to God, but by living to God.
Men would pray better if they lived better. They would get more from God if they lived more obedient and well-pleasing to God.
Be not hot in prayer and cold in praise.