From With Christ in the School of Prayer, by Andrew Murray
God is what He is through His Spirit; the Spirit is the very life of God.
It is Jesus, praying Himself, who teaches to pray. He knows what prayer is. He learned it amid the trials and tears of His earthly life. In heaven it is still His beloved work: His life there is prayer.
Real faith can never be disappointed.
As the branch thirsts for continued sap, so the believer thirsts for more of the Spirit.
Dwell much in the inner chamber, with the door shut—shut in from men, shut up with God; it is there the Father waits you, it is there Jesus will teach you to pray.
Each believing prayer brings a step nearer the final victory.
The Father is in secret: in these words Jesus teaches us where He is waiting us, where He is always to be found.
There is nothing so heart-searching as the prayer of faith.
It is not the effort of faith, seeking to cling to Thee, nor even the rest of faith, trusting Thee to keep me; it is not the obedience of the will, nor the keeping the commandments; but it is Thyself living in me and in the Father, that alone can satisfy me.
The will rules the whole heart and life; if I really will to have anything that is within my reach, I do not rest till I have it.
The blessing of such persevering prayer is unspeakable.
God loves you not because you are clever not because you are good, but because He is your Father. The Cross of Christ does not make God love us; it is the outcome and measure of His love to us.
He that gives himself to be led by the Spirit in his life, will be led by Him in his prayers too. And he will find that Fatherlike giving is the Divine response to childlike living.
As the union of the branch with the vine is one of growth, never-ceasing growth and increase, so our abiding in Christ is a life process in which the Divine life takes ever fuller and more complete possession of us.
Faith is the eye that looks, the hand that grasps, the mouth that drinks from the fountain of life.
Give yourself, and live, to do the works of Christ and you will learn to pray so as to obtain wonderful answers to prayer.
Prayer not only teaches and strengthens to work: work teaches and strengthens to pray.
The only right and safe place for the creature is to be and remain absolutely, unceasingly, universally dependent upon God.
Each believing prayer helps to ripen the fruit and bring us nearer to it.
It is only Christ who opens the way and teaches the worship in spirit.
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