TO ENTER Heaven's gates are not so highly arched as king's palaces; they that enter there must go upon their knees. Daniel Webster
Sermon Illustrations
TROUBLE WITH PRAYER The reason we have trouble with prayer is that God often gives us bread when we pray for stones. Theodore Jennings
HENRY WARD BEECHER It is not well for man to pray cream, and live skim milk.
CRAVINGS/PRAYERS Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend them. Dag Hammerskjold
SIGN IN A HIGH SCHOOL RESTROOM -- notice -- In the event of an atomic attack, the federal ruling against prayer in this school will be temporarily suspended.
MARTIN LUTHER ON PRAYER To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
D. L. MOODY If you pray for bread and bring no basket to carry it, you prove the doubting spirit which may be the only hindrance to the gift you ask.
GE N. WILLIAM BOOTH Work as if everything depended upon your work and pray as if everything depended upon your prayer.
GERMAN PROVERB Pray as though no work would help, and work as though no prayer would help.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays.
JOHN BUNYAN Prayer is a sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the soul to God, through Christ in the strength and assistance of the Spirit, for such things as God has promised.
APPROPRIATING WHAT IS THERE A ship in distress off the Canadian coast, with its fresh water supply completely exhausted, sent out an S. O. S. for fresh water. The reply came back immediately: "Let your…
SPIRITUAL FULCRUM There is an "Archimedean" point outside the world which is the little chamber where a true supplicant prays in all sincerity, where he lifts the world off its hinges. Soren Kierkegaard
MARTIN LUTHER ON BREVITY The fewer words the better prayer.
THANKS BE TO GOD I do not thank Thee, Lord, That I have bread to eat while others starve; Nor yet for work to do While empty hands solicit Heaven; Nor for a body strong…
FOR PASTORS WHO ARE GETTING TOO BIG FOR THEIR BOOTS During a flight between New York and Chicago the captain announced over the plane's intercom: "Our number four engine has just been shut off because…
COMMUNICATION A mother was concerned that her eldest son was using too much profanity, and she consulted her pastor about it, looking for some practical advice. The preacher advised that each time the boy cursed,…
WHEN OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS There are opportunities which we have in life -- but if we hesitate too long they are gone. You may have seen the article carried by AP about Dianne Williams, a 5th…
BEAUTIFUL GRAIN A father and son walked through a wheat field inspecting the crop. The boy called attention to the stems that stood erect and said, "Those that let their heads hang could not be…
CHRIST CHANGES LIVES John was born into a Christian home but became an orphan as a boy and ended up wandering the streets of London. Later, in the Royal Navy he learned navigation but deserted.…
