Samuel Chadwick > Quotes

“Satan dreads nothing but prayer. His one concern is to keep the saints from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, prayerless religion. He laughs at our toil, he mocks our wisdom, but he trembles when we pray.”
― Samuel Chadwick

“The one concern of the Devil is to keep the saints from praying. He fears nothing from prayer-less studies, prayer-less work, prayer-less religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.”
― Samuel Chadwick

“The prayer that prevails is not the work of lips and fingertips. It is the cry of a broken heart and the travail of a stricken soul.”
― Samuel Chadwick

“There is no power like that of prevailing prayer - of Abraham pleading for Sodom, Jacob wrestling in the stillness of the night, Moses standing in the breach, Hannah intoxicated with sorrow, David heartbroken with remorse and grief, Jesus in sweat and blood. Add to this list from the records of the church your personal observation and experience, and always there is cost of passion unto blood. Such prayer prevails. It turns ordinary mortals into men of power. It brings power. It brings fire. It brings rain. It brings life. It brings God.”
― Samuel Chadwick

“It is every man's privilege to be fully assured in the will of God. The Divine attention to detail is amazing. Nothing is too trivial for Omniscience. Come straight to God. Do not bother other people. Lay all questions naked before Him, and He will make it plain to you what is His will. When God speaks, His speech is easily understood. All questions of the plain should be settled in the mount, and where there is certainty in the mount there will be victory on the levels and in the valleys.”
― Samuel Chadwick, The Path of Prayer

“If prayer is the greatest achievement on earth, we may be sure it will call for a discipline that corresponds to its power.”
― Samuel Chadwick, The Path of Prayer

“His business is to know the law. The business of a judge is to interpret the law. The business of the jury is to submit their verdict to the authority of the law. So it is with the Word of God.”
― Samuel Chadwick, The Path of Prayer

“We live by faith. We walk by faith. Edison wrote in 1921: "We don't know the millionth part of one per cent about anything. We don't know”
― Samuel Chadwick, The Path of Prayer

“Light can blind. Our”
― Samuel Chadwick, The Path of Prayer

“Works are by the sweat of man's brow; fruit is God's gift to man. Fruit does not come by toil but by appropriation, assimilation, and abiding.”
― Samuel Chadwick, The Collected Works of Samuel Chadwick - Three books in one

“The study of experimental truth may never become experience, and the experience of others may become a snare.”
― Samuel Chadwick, The Path of Prayer

“To pray as God would have us pray is the greatest achievement on earth.”
― Samuel Chadwick, The Path of Prayer

“For prayer that humbles, sets the soul From all delusions free, And teaches it how utterly Dear Lord, it hangs on thee.”
― Samuel Chadwick, The Path of Prayer

“Judgment Seat of God is in the inner chamber; but the throne of grace is there also, or none would ever dare to enter in.”
― Samuel Chadwick, The Path of Prayer

“The first question is where to begin. Each will find his own starting point. I began with the Psalms. The next thing to decide is the most suitable time of the day. When I began I was called at five o'clock in the morning, and had to be at work at”
― Samuel Chadwick, The Path of Prayer

“six, so I read my morning portion the night before. I read through the appointed portion in a prayer spirit again and again, then went over it clause by clause on my knees, turning its statements into prayer and thanksgiving. Then I wrote out the verse or phrase that spoke to me, read it over next morning as I dressed, committed the day briefly to God, and put the text in my waistcoat pocket. Before I found this method I used to try to work myself into a praying mood, but I lacked resourcefulness, and praying became "prayers" again, and”
― Samuel Chadwick, The Path of Prayer

“Thou art oft most present, Lord, In weak, distracted prayer; A sinner out of heart with self, Most often finds thee there.”
― Samuel Chadwick, The Path of Prayer

“The power to attract is in attractiveness, and it is useless to advertise the banquet if there is nothing to eat. We are acting as though the only remedy for decline were method, organization, and compromise. The Church is failing to meet modern needs, grip the modern mind, and save modern life.”
― Samuel Chadwick, The Collected Works of Samuel Chadwick - Three books in one

“When religion turns to humanity for its inspiration and to the world for its power, God is dethroned and the sanctuary becomes a secularized fellowship.”
― Samuel Chadwick, The Collected Works of Samuel Chadwick - Three books in one

“solitary place to pray. He needed the fenced spaces of silence. To His disciples He said: "And when ye pray, ye shall not be as the hypocrites:”
― Samuel Chadwick, The Path of Prayer

“what water is. We don't know what light is. We don't know what gravitation is. We don't know what enables us to keep on our feet when we stand up. We don't know what electricity is. We don't know what heat is. We don't know anything about magnetism. We have a lot of hypotheses about these things, but that is all. But we do not let our ignorance about all these things deprive us of their use." We discover”
― Samuel Chadwick, The Path of Prayer

“There are some silent places of rare wisdom where men may not talk, but they find it possible to sleep.”
― Samuel Chadwick, The Path of Prayer

“The Day of Pentecost changed carnal thought into spiritual vision, pride into humility, selfishness into love, and cowardice into courage.”
― Samuel Chadwick, The Collected Works of Samuel Chadwick - Three books in one

“Prayer-meetings have died out because men did not believe in the Holy Ghost. The liberty of prophesying has gone because men believe in investigation and not in inspiration.”
― Samuel Chadwick, The Collected Works of Samuel Chadwick - Three books in one