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"Pray without
ceasing." 1
Thessalonians 5:17
1. "You can do more
than pray after you
have prayed; but you
can never do more
than pray until you
have prayed." A.J.
Gordon
2. "God does nothing
except in response
to believing
prayer." John
Wesley
(Famous evangelist
who spent 2 hours
daily in prayer)
3. "Prayer strikes
the winning blow;
service is simply
picking up the
pieces." S.D.
Gordon
4. "One should never
initiate anything
that he cannot
saturate with
prayer."
5. "The greatest
thing anyone can do
for God or man is
pray." S.D. Gordon
6. "If I fail to
spend two hours in
prayer each morning,
the devil gets the
victory through the
day. I have so much
business I cannot
get on without
spending three hours
daily in prayer.
Martin Luther
7. "The most
important thing a
born again Christian
can do is to pray."
Chuck Smith
8. "Prayer does not
change the purpose
of God. But prayer
does change the
action of God."
Chuck Smith
9. "Men may spurn
our appeals, reject
our message, oppose
our arguments,
despise our persons,
but they are
helpless
against our
prayers." Sidlow
Baxter
10. “God shapes the
world by prayer. The
more prayer there is
in the world the
better the world
will be, the
mightier the forces
of against evil …”
E.M. Bounds
11. “Prayer is
where the action
is." John Wesley
12. "Satan does not
care how many people
read about prayer if
only he can keep
them from praying.
Paul E. Billheimer
13. "0h brother,
pray; in spite of
Satan, pray; spend
hours in prayer;
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 talk
about prayer, we
must pray in right
earnest. The Lord is
near. He comes
softly while the
virgins slumber."
Andrew A. Bonar
14. "Don’t pray when
you feel like it.
Have an appointment
with the Lord and
keep it. A man is
powerful on his
knees." Corrie ten
Boom
15. "Talking to men
for God is a great
thing, but talking
to God for men is
greater still." E.M.
Bounds
16. "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
17. "God's cause is
committed to men;
God commits Himself
to men. Praying men
are the vice-regents
of God; they do His
work and carry out
His plans." E.M.
Bounds
18. "The prayer
power has never been
tried to its full
capacity. If we want
to see mighty
wonders of divine
power and grace
wrought in the place
of weakness, failure
and disappointment,
let us answer God's
standing challenge,
"Call unto me, and I
will answer thee,
and show thee great
and mighty things
which thou knowest
not!'" (J. Hudson
Taylor)
19. "No leaving can
make up for the
failure to pray. No
earnestness, no
diligence, no study,
no gifts will supply
its lack." E.M.
Bounds
20. "The little
estimate we put on
prayer is evidence
from the little time
we give to it." E.M.
Bounds
21. "It is necessary
to iterate and
reiterate that
prayer, as a mere
habit, as a
performance gone
through by routine
or in a professional
way, is a dead and
rotten thing." E.M.
Bounds
22. "Satan trembles
when he sees the
weakest Christian on
his knees." William
Cowper
23. "If the church
wants a better
pastor, it only
needs to pray for
the one it has."
24. "Seven days
without prayer makes
one weak." Allen E.
Vartlett
25. "Prayer is the
real work,
Evangelism is just
the mopping up."
26. "You may as soon
find a living man
that does not
breath, as a living
Christian that does
not pray." Matthew
Henry
27. "Prayer will
make a man cease
from sin, or sin
will entice a man to
cease from prayer."
John Bunyon
28. "He who has
learned to pray has
learned the greatest
secret of a holy and
happy life."
William Law
29. "Prayer
is not overcoming
God's reluctance,
but laying hold of
His willingness."
Martin Luther.
30. "There is not in
the world a kind of
life more sweet and
delightful than that
of a continual
conversation with
God." Brother
Lawrence
31. When asked how
much time he spent
in prayer, George
Muller's reply was,
"Hours every day.
But I live in the
spirit of prayer. I
pray as I walk and
when I lie down and
when I arise. And
the answers are
always coming."
Source Unknown.
32. “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 he
trembles when we
pray.” Samuel
Chadwick
33. “I would rather
teach one man to
pray than ten men to
preach.” Charles
Spurgeon
34. “The
man who mobilizes
the Christian church
to pray will make
the greatest
contribution to
world evangelization
in history.”
Andrew Murray
35. "If I could
hear Christ praying
for me in the next
room, I would not
fear a million
enemies. Yet
distance makes no
difference. He is
praying for me.”
(Robert Murray
McCheyne)
36. “One day George
Mueller began
praying for five of
his friends. After
many months, one of
them came to the
Lord. Ten years
later, two others
were converted. It
took 25 years before
the fourth man was
saved. Mueller
persevered in prayer
until his death for
the fifth friend,
and throughout those
52 years he never
gave up hoping that
he would accept
Christ! His faith
was rewarded, for
soon after Mueller’s
funeral the last one
was saved.”
37.
On persevering
prayer:
"I look at a stone
cutter hammering
away at a rock a
hundred times
without so much as a
crack showing in it.
Yet at the 101st
blow it splits in
two. I know it was
not the one blow
that did it, but all
that had gone
before."
38.
"Eighteen-year-old
Hudson Taylor
wandered into his
father's library and
read a gospel tract.
He couldn't shake
off its message.
Finally, falling to
his knees, he
accepted Christ as
his Savior. Later,
his mother, who had
been away, returned
home. When Hudson
told her the good
news, she said, "I
already know. Ten
days ago, the very
date on which you
tell me you read
that tract, I spent
the entire afternoon
in prayer for you
until the Lord
assured me that my
wayward son had been
brought into the
fold." Our Daily
Bread, July 19,
1989.
39.
Spurgeon's "boilerroom."
Five young
college students
were spending a
Sunday in London, so
they went to hear
the famed C.H.
Spurgeon preach.
While waiting for
the doors to open,
the students were
greeted by a man who
asked, "Gentlemen,
let me show you
around. Would you
like to see the
heating plant of
this church?" They
were not
particularly
interested, for it
was a hot day in
July. But they
didn't want to
offend the stranger,
so they consented.
The young men were
taken down a
stairway, a door was
quietly opened, and
their guide
whispered, "This is
our heating plant."
Surprised, the
students saw 700
people bowed in
prayer, seeking a
blessing on the
service that was
soon to begin in the
auditorium above.
Softly closing the
door, the gentleman
then introduced
himself. It was none
other than Charles
Spurgeon. Our Daily
Bread, April 24.
40. "Prayer does not
influence God.
Prayer surely does
influence God. It
does not influence
His purpose. It does
influence His
action." S.D.
Gordon
41. Prayer "is the
root, the fountain,
the mother of a
thousand blessings."
Chrysostom
42. "Prayer is the
greatest of all
forces, because it
honors God and
brings him into
active aid." E.M.
Bounds
43. Prayer should
not be regarded "as
a duty which must be
performed, but
rather as a
privilege to be
enjoyed, a rare
delight that is
always revealing
some new beauty."
E.M. Bounds
44. "I
never prayed
sincerely and
earnestly for
anything but it came
at some time; no
matter at how
distant a day,
somehow, in some
shape, probably the
least I would have
devised, it came."
Adoniram Judson
45. "Our prayer must
not be
self-centered. It
must arise not only
because we feel our
own need as a burden
we must lay upon
God, but also
because we are so
bound up in love for
our fellow men that
we feel their need
as acutely as our
own. To make
intercession for men
is the most powerful
and practical way in
which we can express
our love for them."
John Calvin
46. "We have to pray
with our eyes on
God, not on the
difficulties."
Oswald Chambers
47. "Faith in a
prayer-hearing God
will make a
prayer-loving
Christian." Andrew
Murray
48. "The battle of
prayer is against
two things in the
earthlies: wandering
thoughts, and lack
of intimacy with
God's character as
revealed in His
word. Neither can be
cured at once, but
they can be cured by
discipline." Oswald
Chambers
49. "Prayer breaks
all bars, dissolves
all chains, opens
all prisons, and
widens all straits
by which God's
saints have been
held." E. M. Bounds
50. "A life growing
in its purity and
devotion will be a
more prayerful
life." E. M. Bounds
51. "Four things
let us ever keep in
mind: God hears
prayer, God heeds
prayer, God answers
prayer, and God
delivers by prayer."
E. M. Bounds
52. "Prayer is the
acid test of
devotion." Samuel
Chadwick
53. "As is the
business of tailors
to make clothes and
cobblers to make
shoes, so it is the
business of
Christians to
pray." Martin
Luther
54. "Prayer is my
chief work, and it
is by means of it
that I carry on the
rest." Thomas
Hooker, Puritan
55. "The true church
lives and moves and
has its being in
prayer." Leonard
Ravenhill
56. "We can do
nothing without
prayer. All things
can be done by
importunate prayer.
That is the teaching
of Jesus Christ".
E. M. Bounds
57. "Prayer
wonderfully clears
the vision; steadies
the nerves; defines
duty; stiffens the
purpose; sweetens
and strengthens the
spirit." S.D.
Gordon
58. "The secret of
all failure is our
failure in secret
prayer." The
Kneeling Christian
59. "...True prayer
is measured by
weight, not by
length. A single
groan before God may
have more fullness
of prayer in it than
a fine oration of
great length." C.
H. Spurgeon
60. "If you want
that splendid power
in prayer, you must
remain in loving,
living, lasting,
conscious,
practical, abiding
union with the Lord
Jesus Christ." C. H.
Spurgeon
61. "Little
praying is a kind of
make believe, a
salve for the
conscience, a farce
and a delusion." E.
M. Bounds (Emphasis
added)
62. "The
word of God is the
food by which prayer
is nourished and
made strong."
E. M. Bounds
63. "If the
spiritual life be
healthy, under the
full power of the
Holy Spirit, praying
without ceasing will
be natural." Andrew
Murray
64. "We do not pray
at all until we are
at our wits' end."
Oswald Chambers
65. “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 (Emphasis
added)
66. “Up in a little
town in Maine,things
were pretty dead
some years ago. The
churches were not
accomplishing
anything. There were
a few Godly men in
the churches, and
they said: 'Here we
are, only uneducated
laymen; but
something must be
done in this town.
Let us form a
praying band. We
will all center our
prayers on one man.
Who shall it be?'
They picked out one
of the hardest men
in town, a hopeless
drunkard, and
centered all their
prayers upon him.
In a week, he was
converted. They
centered their
prayers upon the
next hardest man in
town, and soon he
was converted. Then
they took up another
and another, until
within a year, two
or three hundred
were brought to God,
and the fire spread
out into all the
surrounding country.
Definite prayer for
those in the prison
house of sin is the
need of the hour.”
Dr. R.A. Torrey
67. “Therefore,
whether the desire
for prayer is on you
or not, get to your
closet at the set
time; shut yourself
in with God; wait
upon Him; seek His
face; realize Him;
pray.” R. F. Horton
68. “Time spent
alone with God is
not wasted. It
changes us; it
changes our
surroundings; and
every Christian who
would live the life
that counts, and who
would have power for
service must take
time to pray.” M.E.
Andross
69. Make time to
pray. “The great
freight and
passenger trains are
never too busy to
stop for fuel. No
matter how congested
the yards may be, no
matter how crowded
the schedules are,
no matter how many
things demand the
attention of the
trainmen, those
trains always stop
for fuel.” M.E.
Andross
70. “There
is no other activity
in life so important
as that of prayer.
Every other activity
depends upon prayer
for its best
efficiency.”
M.E. Andross
71. “…the man on his
knees has a leverage
underneath the
mountain which can
cast it into the
sea, if necessary,
and can force all
earth and heaven to
recognize the power
there is in 'His
name.'” M.E.
Andross
72. When prayer has
become secondary, or
incidental, it has
lost its power.
Those who are
conspicuously men of
prayer are those who
use prayer as they
use food, or air, or
light, or money."
M.E. Andross
73. "If the
Christian does not
allow prayer to
drive sin out of his
life, sin will drive
prayer out of his
life. Like light and
darkness, the two
cannot dwell
together." M.E.
Andross
74. "We must begin
to believe that God,
in the mystery of
prayer, has
entrusted us with a
force that can move
the Heavenly world,
and can bring its
power down to
earth." Andrew
Murray
75. "...[the] power
of prayer can never
be overrated. They
who cannot serve God
by preaching need
not regret. If a man
can but pray he can
do anything. He who
knows how to
overcome with God in
prayer has Heaven
and earth at his
disposal." Charles
H. Spurgeon
76. "Prayer is a
spiritual law which
cooperates with the
mind of God. It has
more in it than
merely petition. It
clothes itself in
reality and power,
with the force of
God Himself. It is
an attitude of
spirit and mind.
Language is
secondary in true
prayer." Gossner.
77. “What the church
needs today is not
more machinery or
better, not new
organizations or
more novel methods,
but men whom the
Holy Ghost can use—
men of prayer, men
mighty in prayer" E.M.
Bounds
78.
"Prayer does not fit
us for the greater
work; prayer is the
greater work."
Oswald Chambers.
79. "It is not
enough to begin to
pray, nor to pray
aright; nor is it
enough to continue
for a time to pray;
but we must
patiently,
believingly,
continue in prayer
until we obtain an
answer; George
Müller
80. “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
81. “Prayer can
never be in
excess.” C.
H. Spurgeon
82.
“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
83. "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
84.“Yes,
worship of the
loving God is man’s
whole reason for
existence.” A.W.
Tozer
85. “The
Bible is not an end
in itself, but a
means to bring men
to an intimate and
satisfying knowledge
of God, that they
may enter into Him,
that they may
delight in His
Presence, may taste
and know the inner
sweetness of the
very God Himself in
the core and center
of their hearts.”
A.W. Tozer
86. "We are too busy
to pray, and so we
are too busy to have
power. We have a
great deal of
activity, but we
accomplish little;
many services but
few conversions;
much machinery but
few results." R. A.
Torrey
87.
"Prayer is not
learned in a
classroom but in the
closet." E. M.
Bounds
88. "Prayer is not
monologue, but
dialogue. God’s
voice in response to
mine is its most
essential part."
Andrew Murray
89. "Prayer is
weakness leaning on
omnipotence." W. S.
Bowd
90. "Our prayers lay
the track down which
God’s power can
come. Like a mighty
locomotive, his
power is
irresistible, but it
cannot reach us
without rails."
Watchman Nee
91.
"Whole days and
weeks have I spent
prostrate on the
ground in silent or
vocal prayer."
George Whitefield
(Great Evangelist
during American Revolution
era, during the
First Great
Awakening in
America)
92.
"I ought to pray
before seeing any
one…Christ arose
before day and went
into a solitary
place. David says:
‘Early will I seek
thee’…I feel it is
far better to begin
with God-to see His
face first, to get
my soul near Him
before it is near
another." - Robert
Murray M'Cheyne
93. "There
is no power like
that of prevailing
prayer, of Abraham
pleading for Sodom,
Jacob wrestling in
the stillness of the
night, Moses
standing in the
breach, Hannah
intoxicated with
sorrow, David
heartbroken with
remorse and grief,
Jesus in sweat of
blood. Add to this
list from the
records of the
church your personal
observation and
experience, and
always there is the
cost of passion unto
blood. Such prayer
prevails. It turns
ordinary mortals
into men of power.
It brings power.
It brings fire. It
brings rain. It
brings life. It
brings God." Samuel
Chadwick
94. "The
main lesson about
prayer is just this:
Do it! Do it! Do it!
You want to be
taught to pray. My
answer is pray and
never faint, and
then you shall never
fail…" John Laidlaw
95.
"A man who is
intimate with God
will never be
intimidated by men."
Leonard Ravenhill
96. "Prayer is the
secret of power."
Evan Roberts
97.
"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
98. "Where
there is no vision
of eternity, there
is no prayer for the
perishing."
David Smithers
99.
"Prayer is buried,
and lost and Heaven
weeps. If all
prayed the wicked
would flee from our
midst or to the
refuge."
Evan Roberts
100.
"Ministers who do
not spend two hours
a day in prayer are
not worth a dime a
dozen - degrees or
no degrees." Leonard
Ravenhill
101.
"Prayer is reaching
out after the
unseen; fasting is
letting go of all
that is seen and
temporal. Fasting
helps express,
deepen, confirm the
resolution that we
are ready to
sacrifice anything,
even ourselves to
attain what we seek
for the
kingdom
of
God."
Andrew Murray
102.
"All great
soul-winners have
been men of much and
mighty prayer, and
all great revivals
have been preceded
and carried out by
persevering,
prevailing knee-work
in the closet."
Samuel Logan Brengle
103. "Out of a very
intimate
acquaintance with D.
L. Moody, I wish to
testify that he was
a far greater prayer
than he was
preacher. Time and
time again, he was
confronted by
obstacles that
seemed
insurmountable, but
he always knew the
way to overcome all
difficulties. He
knew the way to
bring to pass
anything that needed
to be brought to
pass. He
knew and believed
in the deepest
depths of his soul
that nothing was too
hard for the Lord,
and that
prayer could do
anything that God
could do."
R. A. Torrey
(Emphasis added)
104.
"Prayer - secret,
fervent, believing
prayer - lies at the
root of all personal
godliness." William
Carey
105.
The Word of God
represents all the
possibilities of God
as at the disposal
of true prayer." A.
T. Pierson
106. "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
107.
“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
(Emphasis added).
108.
“Depend upon it, if
you are bent on
prayer, the devil
will not leave you
alone. He will
molest you,
tantalize you, block
you, and will surely
find some
hindrances, big or
little or both. And
we sometimes fail
because we are
ignorant of his
devices…I do not
think he minds our
praying about things
if we leave it at
that. What he minds,
and opposes
steadily, is the
prayer that prays on
until it is prayed
through, assured of
the answer.” Mary
Warburton Booth
109.
“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
110.
"It is in the field
of prayer that
life's critical
battles are lost or
won. We must conquer
all our
circumstances there.
We must first of all
bring them there. We
must survey them
there. We must
master them there.
In prayer we bring
our spiritual
enemies into the
Presence of God and
we fight them there.
Have you tried that?
Or have you been
satisfied to meet
and fight your foes
in the open spaces
of the world?" J.
H. Jowett
111. He who runs
from God in the
morning will
scarcely find Him
the rest of the
day. John
Bunyan
112.
"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
113. "Each time,
before you
intercede, be quiet
first, and worship
God in His glory.
Think of what He can
do, and how He
delights to hear the
prayers of His
redeemed people.
Think of your place
and privilege in
Christ, and expect
great things!"
Andrew Murray
114.
"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
115. "If we would
pray aright, the
first thing we
should do is to see
to it that we really
get an audience with
God, that we really
get into His very
presence. Before a
word of petition is
offered, we should
have the definite
consciousness that
we are talking to
God, and should
believe that He is
listening and is
going to grant the
thing that we ask of
Him." R.A. Torrey
116. "Ten minutes
spent in the
presence of Christ
every day, aye, two
minutes, will make
the whole day
different." Henry
Drummond
117. "Many
Christians
backslide...They are
unable to stand
against the
temptations of the
world, or of their
old nature. They
strive to do their
best to fight
against sin, and to
serve God, but they
have no strength.
They have never
really grasped the
secret: The Lord
Jesus will every day
from heaven continue
His work in me. But
on one condition—the
soul must give Him
time each day to
impart His love and
his grace.
Time alone with the
Lord Jesus each day
is the indispensable
condition of growth
and power." Andrew
Murray (Emphasis
added).
118. "Shut
the world out,
withdraw from all
worldly thoughts and
occupations, and
shut yourself in
alone with God, to
pray to Him in
secret. Let this be
your chief object in
prayer, to realize
the presence of your
heavenly Father."
Andrew Murray
119. "There has
never been a
spiritual awakening
in any country or
locality that did
not begin in united
prayer." A.T.
Pierson
120. "Intercession
is truly universal
work for the
Christian. No place
is closed to
intercessory prayer.
No continent - no
nation - no
organization - no
city - no office.
There is no power on
earth that can keep
intercession out."
Richard Halverson |
