20 Quotes by J. C. Ryle about prayer

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    The 'means of grace' are such as Bible reading, private prayer, and regularly worshiping God in Church, wherein one hears the Word taught and participates in the Lord's Supper.

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    Happy are they, who in the matter of marriage observe three rules. The first is to marry only in the Lord, and after prayer for God’s approval and blessing. The second is not to expect too much from their partners, and to remember that marriage is, after all, the union of two sinners, and not of two angels. The third rule is to strive first and foremost for one another’s sanctification. The more holy married people are, the happier they are.

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    If you train your children to anything, train them, at least, to a habit of prayer.

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    We must wrestle earnestly in prayer, like men contending with a deadly enemy for life.

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    No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.

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    I should as soon expect a farmer to prosper in business who contented himself with sowing his fields and never looking at them till harvest, as expect a believer to attain much holiness who was not diligent about his Bible reading, his prayers, and the use of his Sundays.

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    Prayer needs neither learning, wisdom or book knowledge to begin it. It needs nothing but heart and will.

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    If anyone feels his sins, let him come at once, straight, direct, not merely to church, or to the sacrament, or to repentance, or to prayer, but to Christ Himself.

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