P. T. Forsyth Quotes

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The first duty of every soul is to find not its freedom but its Master.

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Prayer is never rejected so long as we do not cease to pray. The chief failure of prayer is its cessation.

P. T. Forsyth

We shall come one day to a heaven where we shall gratefully know that God's great refusals were sometimes the true answers to our truest prayer.

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All religion is founded on prayer, and in prayer it has its test and measure.

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The greatest element in life is not what occupies most of its time, else sleep would stand high in the scale. Nor is it what engrosses most of its thought, else money would be very high. The two or three hours of worship and preaching weekly has perhaps been the greatest signal influence on English life. Half an hour of prayer, morning or evening, every day, may be a greater element in shaping our course than all our conduct and all our thought.

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Prayer is the atmosphere of revelation, in the strict and central sense of that word. It is the climate in which God's manifestation bursts open into inspiration.

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To have no loyalty is to have no dignity, and in the end, no manhood.

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If within us we find nothing over us we succumb to what is around us.

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P. T. Forsyth

P. T. Forsyth

Born: May 12, 1848

Died: November 11, 1921 (aged 73)

Bio: Peter Taylor Forsyth, also known as P. T. Forsyth, was a Scottish theologian.

Known for:

The soul of prayer (1916)
Cruciality of the cross (1900)
The work of Christ (1910)
The justification of God (1916)
The person and place of Jesus Christ (1909)

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