PRAYER - Earnestness 禱告

Our prayers must mean something to us if they are to mean anything to God.

Maltbie D. Babcock

我們的禱告如果要能對上帝產生意義，那就必須先對我們有意義。

To pray aright is right earnest work.

Jacob Boehm

正確的禱告就是認真的禱告。

God hears no more than the heart speaks, and if the heart be dumb God will certainly be deaf.

Thomas Brooks

上帝只聆聽心靈的聲音，若心靈沉默無言，上帝必定充耳不聞。

When thou prayest, rather be thy heart without words than thy words without heart.

John Bunyan

當你禱告的時候，寧可有心無口而非有口無心。

In God's name I beseech you, let prayer nourish your soul as your meals nourish your body.

Thomas Granger

我奉上帝的名求你，讓禱告滋養你的靈魂，正如同食物滋養你的身體。

Those prayers that awaken God must awaken us.

Thomas Goodwin

那些能喚醒上帝的禱告必須先喚醒我們。

We must pray with our hand at the pump, or the ship will sink in sight of our prayers.

William Gurnall

我們禱告時也要動手做事，不然船就在我們禱告時沉下去了。

I like ejaculatory prayer; it reaches heaven before the devil can get a shot at it.

Rowland Hill

我欣賞簡短而即時的禱告，因為它在魔鬼有機會攔截之前，便已上達天聽。

Prayer is the sweat of the soul.

Martin Luther

禱告是靈魂的汗水。

Much of our praying is just asking God to bless some folks that are ill, and to keep us plugging along. But prayer is not merely prattle, it is warfare.

Alan Redpath

我們的禱告往往只是請求上帝賜福於一些病患，並保守我們得以繼續前行。然而，禱告並非僅僅閒談，它是一場屬靈的爭戰。

Let your fleece lie on the threshing floor of supplication till it is wet with the dew of heaven.

C. H. Spurgeon

將你的羊毛放在祈求的打穀場直到天上甘露濕潤它。

Prayer is the gun we shoot with, fervency is the fire that discharges it, and faith the bullet that pierces the throne of grace.

John Trapp

禱告是我們所持的槍，熱忱是引發其射擊的火藥，而信心則是那顆穿透恩典寶座的子彈。