Christian Prayer and Fasting

The recent release of the Richard Dawkins book, The God Delusion, has brought renewed accusations from the faithless that prayer is scientifically proven to have no effects. This is primarily based on the findings of Harvard’s STEP study that monitored three groups of cardiac patients to find very little if any difference in complications and […]

“I ought to pray before seeing any one. Often when I sleep long, or meet with others early, it is eleven or twelve o’clock before I begin secret prayer. This is a wretched system. It is unscriptural. Christ arose before day and went into a solitary place. David says: ‘Early will I seek thee’; ‘Thou […]

“The act of praying is the very highest energy of which the human mind is capable; praying, that is, with the total concentration of the faculties. The great mass of worldly men and of learned men are absolutely incapable of prayer.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
BISHOP WILSON says: “In H. Martyn’s journal the spirit of prayer, […]

“The great masters and teachers in Christian doctrine have always found in prayer their highest source of illumination. Not to go beyond the limits of the English Church, it is recorded of Bishop Andrews that he spent five hours daily on his knees. The greatest practical resolves that have enriched and beautified human life in […]

“The principal cause of my leanness and unfruitfulness is owing to an unaccountable backwardness to pray. I can write or read or converse or hear with a ready heart; but prayer is more spiritual and inward than any of these, and the more spiritual any duty is the more my carnal heart is apt to […]