The reason so many people do not pray is because of its cost. The cost is not so much in the sweat of agonizing supplication as in the daily fidelity to the life of prayer.
Samuel ChadwickIt takes us long to learn that prayer is more important than organization, more powerful than armies, more influential than wealth and mightier than all learning.
Samuel ChadwickThe great souls who became mighty in prayer and rejoiced to spend three and four hours a day alone with God were once beginners.
Samuel ChadwickThe Holy Ghost does not come upon methods, but upon men. He does not anoint machinery, but men. He does not work through organizations, but through men. He does not dwell in buildings, but men. He indwells the Body of Christ, directs its activities, distributes its forces, empowers its members.
Samuel ChadwickMen ablaze are invincible. Hell trembles when men kindle. The stronghold of Satan is proof against everything but fire. The Church is powerless without the flame of the Holy Ghost. Destitute of fire, nothing else really counts; possessed of fire, nothing else really matters. The one vital need is fire. Without the flame and fervour of the Holy Ghost the Church will never accomplish its mission.
Samuel Chadwick