Prayer is not a little habit pinned on to us while we were tied to our mother’s apron strings; neither is it a little decent quarter of a minute’s grace said over an hour’s dinner, but it is a most serious work of our most serious years. It engages more of time and appetite than our longest dinings or richest feasts... The character of our praying will determine the character of our life. Shallow praying will make shallow life.
The Christian must be preeminently a man or woman of prayer. Their heart must graduate in the school of prayer. In the school of prayer only can the heart learn to live. *No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack.*
Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still. He will never talk well and with real success to men for God who has not learned well how to talk to God for men. More than this, prayerless words in life are deadening words.
E.M. Bounds
11 years ago
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