Quotes from Samuel Chadwick

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

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

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

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

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

When alone with God, be alone with Him.

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

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.

True prayer is a lonely business.

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

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

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

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.

Prayer is the acid test of devotion.

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.

Praying solves the problems of prayer.

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

The Christian religion is hopeless without the Holy Ghost.

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 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.

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