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Search and filter quotations“Closet prayer or private prayer is an indispensable duty.”
Open quotation“Cold prayers bespeak a denial, but fervent prayers offer a sacred violence both to heaven and earth.”
Open quotation“Every man is that really which he is secretly.”
Open quotation“Every secret prayer adds to the devil’s torment.”
Open quotation“Faint not, hold on and hold up, in ways of well-doing, and heaven shall make amends for all.”
Open quotation“God is highly honored by private prayer, or else Satan would never be so greatly enraged against it.”
Open quotation“God looks not at the elegancy of your prayers, to see how neat they are, but at the sincerity of your prayers, how hearty they are.”
Open quotation“Godliness never rises to a higher pitch than when men keep closest to their closets.”
Open quotation“If it were not an excellent thing for a man to be in secret with God, Satan would never make such head against it.”
Open quotation“It is none of Satan’s least designs to interrupt a Christian in his private communion with God.”
Open quotation“It is not he who reads most, but he who meditates most, who will prove the choicest, sweetest, wisest and strongest Christian.”
Open quotation“Prayer crowns God with the honor and glory due to His name, and God crowns prayer with assurance and comfort.”
Open quotation“Prayer is heart work.”
Open quotation“Prayer is nothing but the breathing that out before the Lord that was first breathed into us by the Spirit of the Lord.”
Open quotation“Private prayer is the gate of heaven, a key to let us into paradise.”
Open quotation“Secret prayer is a scourge, a hell to Satan.”
Open quotation“Secret prayer prepares and fits the soul for family prayer, and for public prayer.”
Open quotation“Secret prayer sweetly inclines and strongly disposes a Christian to all other religious duties and services.”
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