Samuel Chadwick Quotes

It is wonderful what God can do with a broken heart, if He gets all the pieces.

Prayer turns ordinary mortals into men of power. It brings power. It brings fire. It brings rain. It brings life. It brings God.

Satan laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.

It takes us long to learn that prayer is more important than organization, more powerful than armies, more influential than wealth and mightier than all learning.

There is no better way to serve others than to pray for them. There is nothing about which I do not pray. I go over all my life in the presence of God. All my problems are solved there.

The root-trouble of the present distress is that the Church has more faith in the world and the flesh than in the Holy Ghost.

Confusion and impotence are the inevitable results when the wisdom and resources of the world are substituted for the presence and power of the Spirit.

A season of silence is the best preparation for speech with God.

True prayer is a lonely business.

The Church gives more time, thought, and money to recreation and sport than to prayer.

The great souls who became mighty in prayer and rejoiced to spend three and four hours a day alone with God were once beginners.

Brains can argue, but it takes heart to comfort.

Hurry is the death of Prayer.

In these days there is no time to pray; but without time, and a lot of it, we shall never learn to pray.

Prayer in secret is life finding expression in the realized Presence of God our Father.

The soul is never less alone than when it is alone with God.

The reason so many people do not pray is because of its cost. The cost is not so much in the sweat of agonizing supplication as in the daily fidelity to the life of prayer.

Passion does not compensate for ignorance.

The prayer that prevails is not the work of lips and fingertips. It is the cry of a broken heart and the travail of a stricken soul.

The Secret of Praying is Praying in Secret. The secret place of prayer calls for every faculty of mind and heart.

Prayer is the acid test of devotion.

To pray in the name of Christ is to pray as one who is at one with Christ, whose minid is the mind of Christ, whose desires are the desires of Christ, and whose purpose is one with that of Christ.

Compassion costs. It is easy enough to argue, criticize and condemn, but redemption is costly, and comfort draws from the deep. Brains can argue, but It takes heart to comfort.

To pray as God would have us pray is the greatest achievement of earth.

intensity is a law of prayer. God is found by those who seek Him with all their heart. Wrestling prayer prevails. The fervent effectual prayer of the righteous is of great force.

The one thing that is said to have surprised God is that the voice of intercession had ceased. 'And He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor' (Isaiah 59:16).

The world will never believe in a religion in which there is no power.

Destitute of the fire of God, nothing else counts; possessing fire, nothing else matters.

Communion is deeper than theology.

Brethren, the crying sin of the church is her laziness after God.

There is no way to learn to pray but by praying.

When alone with God, be alone with Him.

A gift without a heart behind it is a bribe. God asks for our heart, not our gifts.

Praying solves the problems of prayer.

If you're successful, don't crow. If you're defeated, don't croak.

The Christian religion is hopeless without the Holy Ghost.