Charles Brent famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Pray hardest when it is hardest to pray.
-- Charles Brent

#Praying #Christianity #Hardest
There is no chasm in society that cannot be firmly and permanently bridged by intercession; there is no feud or dislike that cannot be healed by the same exercise of love.
-- Charles Brent

#Prayer #Exercise #Feuds
It makes a great difference in our feeling towards others if their needs and their joys are on our lips in prayer; as also it makes a vast difference in their feelings towards us if they know that we are in the habit of praying for them.
-- Charles Brent

#Prayer #Differences #Joy
It seems to me, as time goes on, that the only thing that is worth seeking for is to know and to be known by Christ -- a privilege open alone to the childlike, who, with receptivity, guilelessness, and humility, move Godward.
-- Charles Brent

#Moving #Humility #Goes On
The unity of Christendom is not a luxury, but a necessity. The world will go limping until Christ's prayer that all may be one is answered. We must have unity, not at all costs, but at all risks. A unified Church is the only offering we dare present to the coming Christ, for in it alone will He find room to dwell.
-- Charles Brent

#Prayer #Offering #Luxury
A low standard of prayer means a low standard of character and a low standard of service. Those alone labor effectively among men who impetuously fling themselves upward towards God.
-- Charles Brent

#Prayer #Mean #Character
God has special confidences for each soul. Indeed, it would seem as though the deepest truths came only in moments of profound devotional silence and contemplation.
-- Charles Brent

#Prayer #Profound #Silence
A man must not stop listening any more than praying when he rises from his knees. No one questions the need of times of formal address to God, but few admit in any practical way the need of quiet waiting upon God, gazing into His face, feeling for His hand, listening for His voice.
-- Charles Brent

#Prayer #Men #Hands
Just as in prayer it is not we who momentarily catch His attention, but He ours, so when we fail to hear His voice, it is not because He is not speaking so much as that we are not listening. We must recognize that all things are in God and that God is in all things, and we must learn to be very attentive, in order to bear God speaking in His ordinary tone without any special accent.
-- Charles Brent

#Prayer #Order #Voice
Repeatedly place your pet opinions and prejudices before God. He will surprise you by showing you that the best of them need refining and some the purification of destruction.
-- Charles Brent

#Prayer #Pet #Prejudice
Pray with your intelligence. Bring things to God that you have thought out and think them out again with Him. That is the secret of good judgment.
-- Charles Brent

#Prayer #Thinking #Secret
Concluding a short series on sin: It is appalling to think of a power so strong that it can annihilate with the irresistible force of its grinding heel; but it is inspiring to consider an Almightiness that transforms the works of evil into the hand-maidens of righteousness and converts the sinner into the saint. And it is this latter power which eternal Love possesses and exhibits. He persistently dwells in the sinner until the sinner wakes up in His likeness and is satisfied with it.
-- Charles Brent

#Strong #Thinking #Hands

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