"If I should neglect prayer but a single day, I should lose a great deal of the fire of faith."
- Martin Luther"He only can truly pray who is all aglow for holiness, for God, and for heaven."
- E. M. Bounds
"When God has something very great to accomplish for His church, it is His will that there should precede it, the extraordinary prayers of His people... when God is about to accomplish great things for His Church, He will begin by remarkably pouring out the spirit of grace and supplication"
- Jonathan Edwards.
"The price of prayerlessness far exceeds the price of prayer."
- Selected
"Give yourselves to prayer and the ministry of the Word. If you do not pray, God will probably lay you aside from your ministry, asHe did me, to teach you to pray."
- Robert Murray McCheyne
"Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element in prayer."
- E. M. Bounds
"We can never expect to grow in the likeness of our Lord unless we follow His example and give more time to communion with the Father. A revival of real praying would produce a spiritual revolution."
- E.M. Bounds
"Holy living is essential preparation for prayer."
- E.M. Bounds
"The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work and prayerless religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray."
- Samuel Chadwick
"The coming revival must begin with a great revival of prayer. It is in the closet, with the door shut, that the sound of abundance of rain will first be heard."
- Andrew Murray
"If the spirit of prayer departs, it is a sure indication of a backslidden heart, for while the first love of a Christian continues he is sure to be drawn by the Holy Spirit to wrestle much in prayer."
- Charles G. Finney, in Revival Lectures
"Prayer is my chief work, and it is by means of it that I carry on the rest."
- Thomas Hooker, Puritan
"The true church lives and moves and has its being in prayer."
- Leonard Ravenhill
"The mightiest prayers are often those drenched with the Word of God."
- Herbert Lockyer
"Prayer is the first thing, the second thing, the third thing necessary to a minister. Pray, then, my dear brother; pray, pray, pray."
- Edward Payson
"Our greatest victories are won on our knees and with empty stomachs."
- Julio C. Ruibal
"A man who kneels before God will stand before men."
- Leonard Ravenhill
"To pray strenuously needs careful cultivation."
- Oswald Chambers
"True prayer is a lonely business."
- Samuel Chadwick
"Every work of God can be traced to some kneeling form."
- D L. Moody
"Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life."
- Oswald Chambers
"Prayer is life passionately wanting, wishing, desiring God's triumph.
Prayer is life striving and toiling everywhere and always for that ultimate victory."
- George Campbell Morgan
"Too busy; O forgive, Dear Lord, that I should ever be, too much engrossed in earthly tasks, to spend an hour with thee."
- A.B. Christiansen
"The secret of praying is praying in secret."
- Leonard Ravenhill
"17 Pray without ceasing.
18 In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
19 Quench not the Spirit.
20 Despise not prophesyings.
21 Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
22 Abstain from all appearance of evil.
23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ."
-Apostle Paul, 1 Thessalonians 5