42 Quotes by Samuel Chadwick

Prayer is the acid test of devotion.

It takes us long to learn that prayer is more important than organization, more powerful than armies, more influential than wealth and mightier than all learning.

The reason so many people do not pray is because of its cost. The cost is not so much in the sweat of agonizing supplication as in the daily fidelity to the life of prayer.

The Church gives more time, thought, and money to recreation and sport than to prayer.

Brains can argue, but it takes heart to comfort.

When alone with God, be alone with Him.

In these days there is no time to pray; but without time, and a lot of it, we shall never learn to pray.

Compassion costs. It is easy enough to argue, criticize and condemn, but redemption is costly, and comfort draws from the deep. Brains can argue, but It takes heart to comfort.

Truth without enthusiasm, morality without emotion, ritual without soul, are things Christ unsparingly condemned. Destitute of fire, they are nothing more than a godless philosophy, an ethical system, and a superstition.