1. “Prayer does not fit us for thegreater work; prayer is the greater work.” Oswald Chambers.
2. “What the church needs today is not more machinery or better,not new organizations or more novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost canuse—men of prayer, men mighty in prayer” E.M. Bounds
3. “Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose ourarguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers.” J. Sidlow Baxter
4. “Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking toGod for men is greater still.” E.M. Bounds
5. “Satan trembles when he sees the weakest Christian on hisknees.” William Cowper
6. “The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians frompraying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work andprayerless religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but hetrembles when we pray.” Samuel Chadwick
7. “I would ratherteach one man to pray than ten men to preach.” Charles Spurgeon
8. “To make intercession for men is the most powerful andpractical way in which we can express our love for them.” John Calvin
9. “If you want that splendid power in prayer, you mustremain in loving, living, lasting, conscious, practical, abiding union with theLord Jesus Christ.” C. H. Spurgeon
10. “The word of Godis the food by which prayer is nourished and made strong.” E. M.Bounds
11. “Prayershould be the breath of our breathing, the thought of our thinking, the soul ofour feeling, the life of our living, the sound of our hearing, and the growthof our growing. Prayer is lengthwithout end, width without bounds, height without top, and depth withoutbottom; illimitable in its breadth, exhaustless in height, fathomless indepths, and infinite in extension. Oh, for determined men and women who will rise early and really burn forGod. Oh for a faith that willsweep into heaven with the early dawning of morning and have ships from ashoreless sea loaded in the soul’s harbor ere the ordinary laborer has knockedthe dew from the scythe or the lackluster has turned from his pallet of strawto spread nature’s treasures of fruit before the early buyers. Oh, for such.” Homer W. Hodge
