Samuel I. Prime famous quotes

Recreation is not the highest kind of enjoyment, but in its time and place is quite as proper as prayer.
-- Samuel I. Prime

#Prayer #Kind #Recreation

Happy are they who freely mingle prayer and toil till God responds to the one and rewards the other.
-- Samuel I. Prime

#Prayer #Rewards #Toil

Patience and perseverance are never more thoroughly Christian graces than when features of prayer.
-- Samuel I. Prime

#Christian #Perseverance #Prayer

Relying on the atonement which Christ has made, and desiring to be saved in no other way, I commit myself into Thy hands, O God, my Father! Take me, and do with me as Thou seest to be for Thy glory. I consecrate myself forever to Thy service, and trust for acceptance in the merits of Thy Son.
-- Samuel I. Prime

#Father #Son #Acceptance

God is the only sure foundation on which the mind can rest.
-- Samuel I. Prime

#Mind #Foundation

If you feel sincerely sorry on account of your sins, and believe that Christ is able and willing to forgive you, the work is done. You may trust with all the confidence of a child who confesses his fault, and casts himself into his father's arms. This is faith; a simple trust in the power and willingness of the Father to forgive, for the sake of what Christ the Son has done.
-- Samuel I. Prime

#Children #Sorry #Father

Staying where you now are, you must perish; coming to Christ, you can but perish; coming to Christ, no one ever did perish; while you sit still and starve, there is bread enough and to spare in your Father's house. Will you return?
-- Samuel I. Prime

#Father #House #Bread

It is not the way to convert a sinner to knock him down first and then reason with him.
-- Samuel I. Prime

#Way #Firsts #Reason

It is quite likely that the modern contrivances for making Sunday-schools amusing have given them a distate for the more solemn services of the sanctuary. If so, the amusement is a sin. The schools should feed the church. Children ought to be led by one into the other, exposed to the preaching of the gospel, taught the ways of God's house, and brought up under its influence, with all its hallowed and elevating influences.
-- Samuel I. Prime

#Children #School #Sunday

Prayer is the link that connects us with God.

There is no wonder more supernatural and divine in the life of a believer than the mystery and ministry of prayer...the hand of the child touching the arm of the Father and moving the wheel of the universe.

Pray, always pray; beneath sins heaviest load, Prayer claims the blood from Jesus' side that flowed. Pray, always pray; though weary, faint, and lone, Prayer nestles by the Father's sheltering throne.

What we need now for quickening is not so much money and wisdom as the spirit of supplication. Pray for yourself until the new life is infused. When that new life comes, it will lead you to pray for others.

To say this sacred prayer [the Kaddish, prayer for the dead] for a Gentile is a most uncommon proceeding, but so unanimous and ardent is the feeling of the people of the New York ghetto in the present instance that Pres. William McKinley is spoken of in that quarter as "the loving brother of all of us," as one who "died a martyr to the freedom of Jew and Gentile.

Big writers become a kind of shared climate.

I think you kind of have to put yourself out there.

Byrd has always been that kind of pitcher, trying to trick you, keep the ball low, in and out. He threw a lot of strikes, worked it inside and out, threw breaking balls for strikes behind in the count.

In labouring to be brief, I become obscure.

My job is what millions of people do for recreation. How can you not like that?