Quotes About Commitment

If you find your life of prayer to be always so short, and so easy, and so spiritual, as to be without cost and strain and sweat to you, you may depend upon it, you have not yet begun to pray.

Prayer is a powerful thing; for God has bound and tied himself thereunto.

Prayer is the acid test of devotion.

As the day comes to a close and we review what we have tried to do, again there should be that sense of committing everything to God.

The open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about.

God is looking for people to use, and if you can get usable, he will wear you out. The most dangerous prayer you can pray is this: 'Use me.'

Allow yourself to be possessed by God by receiving Jesus, and you will never be possessed by anything else.

Prayer is the hard-work business of Christianity, and it nets amazing results.

See that you do not use the trick of prayer to cover up what you know you ought to do.

You can serve or you can sing, and wreck your heart in prayer, working the world's hard work.

However we are, however we think we ought to be in prayer, the fact is we just need to show up and do the best we can do. It's like being in a family.

It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.

The Christian life is not limited to prayer, but requires an ongoing dedication and courage born of prayer.

Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment.

Prayer time must be kept up as duly as meal-time.

To pray well one must pray much.

All is not done when we have spoken to God by prayer; our petitions are to be pursued with real endeavours.

Prayer alone will not make a happy life. A happy life must be built. You must act.

A life of prayer is a life whose litanies are ever fresh acts of self-devoting love.

I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.

Prayer is an effort of will.

The importance of prayer rises in proportion to the importance of the things we should give up in order to pray

Playing around is one thing; following an established regimen is quite another. It's true with exercise equipment and it is true with prayer.

The real victory in all service is won in secret beforehand by prayer.