“When God intends great mercy for His people, the first thing He does is set them a praying.” Mathew Henry

Friends can look on, feel compassion, and pray. Yet, of themselves, they can do nothing. It is the exclusive right of God to “speak to the heart”. His Word is His voice.

“It’s not enough to ‘adore the fullness of Scripture; we must seek to imbibe and exhibit its practical influence.” Chas Bridges 1827

Talking about God cleansing the temple, "Too many church members have been starched and ironed before they have been washed." Vance Havner

"Our most intense grief should begin with self...guarding the temple gate of the soul with watchful vigilance." Philpot 1856

"Unutterable tenderness is the characteristic of all of God's allotments." T. Cuyler late 1800s

"One who prays in the calm will be ready and pray in the storm." Tom Elliff

Prayer is the Golden Key which opens up the morning and locks securely the evening.

"Modern man is a prodigal feeding swine in a far country, too proud to go home to the Father and confess that he has sinned." Vance Havner

“I never lay my head on the pillow at night without thinking that before morning dawns the final morning may have dawned.” G Campbell Morgan

When David was pursued by Saul, it pleased him more to know that God was his strength than that God gave him strength.

“Intimacy with God is the very essence of religion.” Horatius Bonar

“When your fellow-men prove unkind, refer the cause to God. Speak of the faults of others only in prayer.” MacDuff

“He who is to crown me with glory above, will surely strengthen me with grace below.” J. Meikle from a warship in 1756

“By the mingling rays of His grace and love in a beauteous rainbow, all my blackness is removed, and I am clothed with His beauty.”

“Sin is too strong for me-but His grace is too strong for sin.” Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound. Romans 5:20

“As important as the grandeur of getting started is the grace of going on.” Vance Havner

“We prove the value we attach to things by the time we devote to them.” Andrew Murray

“In this world we nearly always find enthusiasm and criticism side by side.” D.M. Baillie

“Where we get the enthusiast we usually get the critic and cynic too.” Baillie