Prepare to meet thy God, O Christian! Betake thyself to thy chamber on the Saturday night… The oven of thine heart thus baked, as it were, overnight, would be easily heated the next morning; the fire so well raked up when thou wentest to bed, would be the sooner kindled when thou should rise. If thou wouldst thus leave thy heart with God on the Saturday night, thou shouldst find it with Him in the Lord’s Day morning.
— George Swinnock (1627–1673), Prediger
Related Bible passage: AMO.4.12
Topics: Prayer & Silence, Church & Congregation, Growth & Character
Occasions: Morning & Evening
George Swinnock
George Swinnock war ein englischer puritanischer Geistlicher und theologischer Schriftsteller des 17. Jahrhunderts, der unter anderem in Buckinghamshire und Kent wirkte. Er stand für eine bildhafte, alltagsbezogene Lehre der persönlichen Heiligung und verlor 1662 infolge des Uniformitätsakts als Nonkonformist zeitweise sein Pfarramt. Bibellesern bietet er bis heute seelsorgerlich ausgerichtete Zugänge zur reformierten Glaubenspraxis.
All quotes by George Swinnock (20)
When we pray, the circumstances often remain the same, but we become different.
Oswald Chambers
Prayer does not change God, but the one who prays.
Søren Kierkegaard
Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
Corrie ten Boom
To pray is to draw breath from God.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Prayer does not equip us for greater works – prayer is the greater work.
Oswald Chambers
God has his ear at your heart.
Augustine of Hippo
Prayers are tools not for doing or getting, but for being and becoming.
Eugene Peterson