“Prayer does not fit us for thegreater work; prayer is the greater work.” Oswald Chambers
“Prayer can never be in excess.” C.H. Spurgeon
“Prayer is not learned in a classroom but in thecloset.” E.M. Bounds
“There is no power like that of prevailing prayer, of Abrahampleading for Sodom, Jacob wrestling in the stillness of the night, Mosesstanding in the breach, Hannah intoxicated with sorrow, David heartbroken withremorse and grief, Jesus in sweat of blood. Such prayer prevails. Itturns ordinary mortals into men of power. It brings power. Itbrings fire. It brings rain. It brings life. It bringsGod.” Samuel Chadwick
“We give too much attention to method and machinery andresources, and too little to the source of power.” J. Hudson Taylor
“It is in the field of prayer that life’s critical battlesare lost or won.” J.H. Jowett
“Prayer is the first thing, the second thing, the third thingnecessary to a minister. Pray, then my dear brother; pray, pray, pray.”Edward Payson
“Let this be your chief object inprayer, to realize the presence of your heavenly Father.” Andrew Murray
“Praying men are the vice-regents of God; they do His workand carry out His plans.” E.M. Bounds
“Prayer shouldbe the breath of our breathing, the thought of our thinking, the soul of ourfeeling, the life of our living, the sound of our hearing, and the growth ofour 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
“No learning can make up for the failure to pray. Noearnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack.” E.M.Bounds
“Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose ourarguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers.” J. Sidlow Baxter
“Satan does not care how many people read about prayer ifonly he can keep them from praying.” Paul Billheimer
“0h brother, pray; in spite of Satan, pray; spend hours inprayer; rather neglect friends than not pray; rather fast, and lose breakfast,dinner, tea, and supper–and sleep too–than not pray. And we must not talkabout prayer, we must pray in right earnest. The Lord is near. He comes softlywhile the virgins slumber.” Andrew Bonar
“Don’t pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment withthe Lord and keep it. A man is powerful on his knees.” Corrie ten Boom
“Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to Godfor men is greater still.” E.M. Bounds
“Satan trembles when he sees the weakest Christian on hisknees.” William Cowper
“You may as soon find a living man that does not breath, as aliving Christian that does not pray.” Matthew Henry
“Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice aman to cease from prayer.” John Bunyan
“He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secretof a holy and happy life.” William Law
“Prayer is not overcoming God’s reluctance, but laying holdof His willingness.” Martin Luther
“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
“I would rather teachone man to pray than ten men to preach.” C.H. Spurgeon
“The man who mobilizes the Christian church to pray will makethe greatest contribution to world evangelization in history.” Andrew Murray
“To make intercessionfor men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our lovefor them.” John Calvin
“Prayer is the root, the fountain, the mother of a thousandblessings.” John Chrysostom
Prayer should not be regarded “as a duty which must beperformed, but rather as a privilege to be enjoyed, a rare delight that is alwaysrevealing some new beauty.” E.M. Bounds
“Our praying must not be self-centered. It must arise notonly because we feel our own need as a burden we must lay upon God, but alsobecause we are so bound up in love for our fellow men that we feel their needas acutely as our own.” John Calvin
“We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on thedifficulties.” Oswald Chambers
“Prayer breaks all bars, dissolves all chains, opens allprisons, and widens all straits by which God’s saints have been held.” E.M. Bounds
“Four things let us ever keep in mind: God hears prayer, Godheeds prayer, God answers prayer, and God delivers by prayer.” E.M.Bounds
“Prayer is the acid test of devotion.” SamuelChadwick
“As is the business of tailors to make clothes and cobblersto make shoes, so it is the business of Christians to pray.” Martin Luther
“True prayer is measured by weight, not by length. A singlegroan before God may have more fullness of prayer in it than a fine oration ofgreat length.” C.H. Spurgeon
“What the church needs today is not more machinery or better, notnew organizations or more novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost canuse—men of prayer, men mighty in prayer” E.M. Bounds
“If you want that splendid power in prayer, you must remainin loving, living, lasting, conscious, practical, abiding union with the LordJesus Christ.” C.H. Spurgeon
“The word of God isthe food by which prayer is nourished and made strong.” E.M.Bounds
