Top 40 Samuel Chadwick Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, and prayer-less religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.”

— Samuel Chadwick

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2. “Hurry is the death of Prayer.”

— Samuel Chadwick

3. “Satan laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.”

— Samuel Chadwick

4. “It is wonderful what God can do with a broken heart, if He gets all the pieces.”

— Samuel Chadwick

5. “Prayer turns ordinary mortals into men of power. It brings power. It brings fire. It brings rain. It brings life. It brings God.”

— Samuel Chadwick

6. “The Secret of Praying is Praying in Secret. The secret place of prayer calls for every faculty of mind and heart.”

— Samuel Chadwick

7. “The 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 Chadwick

8. “Confusion and impotence are the inevitable results when the wisdom and resources of the world are substituted for the presence and power of the Spirit.”

— Samuel Chadwick

9. “There is no way to learn to pray but by praying.”

— Samuel Chadwick

10. “True prayer is a lonely business.”

— Samuel Chadwick

11. “A gift without a heart behind it is a bribe. God asks for our heart, not our gifts.”

— Samuel Chadwick

12. “A season of silence is the best preparation for speech with God.”

— Samuel Chadwick

13. “Spirit filled souls are ablaze for God. They love with a love that glows. They serve with a faith that kindles. They serve with a devotion that consumes. They hate sin with fierceness that burns. They rejoice with a joy that radiates. Love is perfected in the fire of God.”

— Samuel Chadwick

14. “Destitute of the fire of God, nothing else counts; possessing fire, nothing else matters.”

— Samuel Chadwick

15. “If you’re successful, don’t crow. If you’re defeated, don’t croak.”

— Samuel Chadwick

16. “Prayer is the acid test of devotion.”

— Samuel Chadwick

17. “It 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 Chadwick

18. “The root-trouble of the present distress is that the Church has more faith in the world and the flesh than in the Holy Ghost.”

— Samuel Chadwick

19. “When alone with God, be alone with Him.”

— Samuel Chadwick

20. “In these days there is no time to pray; but without time, and a lot of it, we shall never learn to pray.”

— Samuel Chadwick

21. “The prayer that prevails is not the work of lips and fingertips. It is the cry of a broken heart and the travail of a stricken soul.”

— Samuel Chadwick

22. “The Church is the Body of Christ begotten, unified, and indwelt by the Spirit, but forgetting the Spirit, men wrangle over limbs, functions, and orders. The Christian religion is hopeless without the Holy Ghost.”

— Samuel Chadwick

23. “The soul is never less alone than when it is alone with God.”

— Samuel Chadwick

24. “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 Chadwick

25. “The Christian religion is hopeless without the Holy Ghost.”

— Samuel Chadwick

26. “It is every man’s privilege to be fully assured in the will of God. The Divine attention to detail is amazing. Nothing is too trivial for Omniscience. Come straight to God. Do not bother other people. Lay all questions naked before Him, and He will make it plain to you what is His will. When God speaks, His speech is easily understood. All questions of the plain should be settled in the mount, and where there is certainty in the mount there will be victory on the levels and in the valleys.”

— Samuel Chadwick

27. “Passion does not compensate for ignorance.”

— Samuel Chadwick

28. “The Church gives more time, thought, and money to recreation and sport than to prayer.”

— Samuel Chadwick

29. “Brains can argue, but it takes heart to comfort.”

— Samuel Chadwick

30. “The world will never believe in a religion in which there is no power.”

— Samuel Chadwick

31. “Compassion costs. It is easy enough to argue, criticize and condemn, but redemption is costly, and comfort draws from the deep. Brains can argue, but It takes heart to comfort.”

— Samuel Chadwick

32. “Brethren, the crying sin of the church is her laziness after God.”

— Samuel Chadwick

33. “Truth without enthusiasm, morality without emotion, ritual without soul, are things Christ unsparingly condemned. Destitute of fire, they are nothing more than a godless philosophy, an ethical system, and a superstition.”

— Samuel Chadwick

34. “The Holy Spirit cannot conquer the world with unbelief, nor can He save the world with a worldly Church. He calls for a crusade, a campaign, and an adventure of saving passion. For this enterprise He wants a separated, sanctified and sacrificial people.”

— Samuel Chadwick

35. “There is no better way to serve others than to pray for them. There is nothing about which I do not pray. I go over all my life in the presence of God. All my problems are solved there.”

— Samuel Chadwick

36. “To pray in the name of Christ is to pray as one who is at one with Christ, whose minid is the mind of Christ, whose desires are the desires of Christ, and whose purpose is one with that of Christ.”

— Samuel Chadwick

37. “Praying solves the problems of prayer.”

— Samuel Chadwick

38. “To pray as God would have us pray is the greatest achievement of earth.”

— Samuel Chadwick

39. “Communion is deeper than theology.”

— Samuel Chadwick

40. “Prayer in secret is life finding expression in the realized Presence of God our Father.”

— Samuel Chadwick

41. “The great souls who became mighty in prayer and rejoiced to spend three and four hours a day alone with God were once beginners.”

— Samuel Chadwick

42. “If prayer is the greatest achievement on earth, we may be sure it will call for a discipline that corresponds to its power.”

— Samuel Chadwick