"A sinning man stops praying, a praying
man stops sinning." ~ Leonard Ravenhill
"None can believe how powerful prayer is,
and what it is able to effect, but those who have learned it by experience. It
is a great matter when in extreme need to take hold on prayer. I know, whenever
I have prayed earnestly, that I have been amply heard, and have obtained more
than I prayed for. God indeed sometimes delayed, but at last He came." ~ Martin
Luther
"True prayer is a lonely business." ~ Samuel Chadwick
"When I am praying the most eloquently, I
am getting the least accomplished in my prayer life. But when I stop getting
eloquent and give God less theology and shut up and just gaze upward and wait
for God to speak to my heart He speaks with such power that I have to grab a
pencil and a notebook and take notes on what God is saying to my heart." ~ A. W. Tozer
"He who runs from God in the morning will
scarcely find Him the rest of the day." ~ John Bunyan
"If your faith does not make you pray,
have nothing to do with it: get rid of it, and God help thee to begin
again." ~ C. H. Spurgeon
"I live in the spirit of prayer; I pray
as I walk, when I lie down and when I rise, and the answers are always
coming." ~ George Mueller
"Notice, we never pray for folks we
gossip about, and we never gossip about the folk for whom we pray! For prayer
is a great deterrent." ~ Leonard Ravenhill
"See that you do not use the trick of
prayer to cover up what you know you ought to do." ~ Oswald Chambers
"You can do more than pray after you've
prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed." ~ John
Bunyan
"The more helpless you are, the better
you are fitted to pray, and the more answers to prayer you will
experience." ~ O. Hallesby
"Nothing tends more to cement the hearts
of Christians than praying together. Never do they love one another so well as
when they witness the outpouring of each other's hearts in prayer." ~ Charles Finney
"And there you have the reason why many
people pray for the power of the Holy Ghost, and they get something, but oh, so
little! because they prayed for power for work, and power for blessing, but
they have not prayed for power for full deliverance from self." ~ Andrew
Murray
”Worship
and intercession must go together, the one is impossible without the other.
Intercession means that we rouse ourselves up to get the mind of Christ about
the one for whom we pray.” ~ Oswald Chambers
”History
is silent about revivals that did not begin with prayer.” ~ Edwin Orr
”There is nothing that makes us love a man so
much as praying for him.” ~ William Law
”The Church is looking for better methods; God
is looking for better men. The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not anoint
plans, but men…Men of prayer." ~ E. M. Bounds
”Pray,
and let God worry.” ~ Martin Luther
”Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare
tire?” ~ Corrie Ten Boom
”I have been driven many times to my knees by
the overwhelming conviction that I had absolutely no other place to go.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
”Faith in a prayer-hearing God will make a
prayer-loving Christian.” ~ Andrew Murray
”Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be
stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers, pray for powers equal
to your task.” ~ Phillips Brooks
”Rich is the person who has a praying friend.” ~ Janice Hughes
"I
would rather train twenty men to pray, than a thousand to preach; A minister's
highest mission ought to be to teach his people to pray." ~ H. MacGregor
“The trouble with nearly everybody who prays
is that he says ‘Amen’ and runs away before God has a chance to reply.
Listening to God is far more important than giving Him our ideas.” ~ Frank
Laubach
"Time spent in prayer will yield more
than that given to work. Prayer alone gives work its worth and its success.
Prayer opens the way for God Himself to do His work in us and through us. Let
our chief work as God's messengers be intercession; in it we secure the
presence and power of God to go with us." ~ Andrew Murray
"Prayer
is the real work, Evangelism is just the mopping up."
“The
great people of the earth today are the people who pray! I do not mean those
who talk about prayer; nor those who say they believe in prayer; nor those who
explain prayer; but I mean those who actually take the time to pray. They have
not time. It must be taken from something else. That something else is
important, very important and pressing, but still, less important and pressing
than prayer. There are people who put prayer first, and group the other items
in life's schedule around and after prayer. These are the people today who are
doing the most for God in winning souls, in solving problems, in awakening
churches, in supplying both men and money for mission posts, in keeping fresh
and strong their lives far off in sacrificial service on the foreign field,
where the thickest fighting is going on, and in keeping the old earth sweet a
little while longer.” ~ S. D. Gordon
"Since the days of Pentecost, has the
whole church ever put aside every other work and waited upon Him for ten days,
that the Spirit’s power might be manifested? We give too much attention to
method and machinery and resources, and too little to the source of
power." ~ Hudson Taylor
"Prayer is not learned in a classroom but
in the closet." ~ E. M. Bounds
"Talking to men for God is a great thing,
but talking to God for men is greater still." ~ E. M. Bounds
"The men who have done the most for God
in this world have been early on their knees. He who fritters away the early
morning, its opportunity and freshness, in other pursuits than seeking God will
make poor headway seeking Him the rest of the day. If God is not first in our
thoughts and efforts in the morning, He will be in the last place the remainder
of the day." ~ E. M. Bounds
“Those persons who know the deep peace of God,
the unfathomable peace that passeth all understanding, are always men and women
of much prayer.” ~ R. A. Torrey
"The essence of prayer does not consist
in asking God for something but in opening our hearts to God, in speaking with
Him, and living with Him in perpetual communion. Prayer is continual
abandonment to God. Prayer does not mean asking God for all kinds of things we
want; it is rather the desire for God Himself, the only Giver of Life, Prayer
is not asking, but union with God. Prayer is not a painful effort to gain from
God help in the varying needs of our lives. Prayer is the desire to possess God
Himself, the Source of all life. The true spirit of prayer does not consist in
asking for blessings, but in receiving Him who is the giver of all blessings,
and in living a life of fellowship with Him." ~ Sadhu Sundar Singh
“Closet communion needs time for the
revelation of God’s presence. It is vain to say, ‘I have too much work to do to
find time.’ You must find time or forfeit blessing. God knows how to save for
you the time you sacredly keep for communion with Him.” ~ A. T. Pierson
“I have seen many men work without praying,
though I have never seen any good come out of it; but I have never seen a man
pray without working.” ~ James Hudson Taylor
"Beware in your prayers, above everything
else, of limiting God, not only by unbelief, but by fancying that you know what
He can do. Expect unexpected things 'above all that we ask or think.'" ~ Andrew Murray
”Worshipping God
is the great essential of fitness.
If you have not been worshipping…when you get to work you will not only
be useless yourself, but a tremendous hindrance to those who are associated
with you.” ~ Oswald Chambers
