“Give yourselves to prayer and the ministry of the Word. If you do not pray, God will probably lay you aside from your ministry, as He did me, to teach you to pray.” - Robert Murray McCheyne 

“The evangelization of the world depends first of all upon a revival of prayer. Deeper than the need for men – aye, deep down at the bottom of our spiritless life, is the need for the forgotten secret of prevailing, world-wide prayer.”- Andrew Murray 

“Prayer and praise are to the Christian as the two wings are to the bird. Don’t expect the bird to fly if one wing is broken. Even so the Christian needs both prayer and praise.” - J. Wesley Adcock, 

“Before a word of petition is offered, we should have the definite and vivid consciousness that we are talking to God and should believe that He is listening to our petition and is going to grant the thing that we ask of Him. We should look to the Holy Spirit to really lead us into the presence of God and should not be hasty in words until He has actually brought us there.” -R. A. Torrey 

Walking with God down the avenue of prayer we acquire something of His likeness, and unconsciously we become witnesses to others of His beauty and His grace. – E. M. Bounds 

Sainthood’s piety is made, refined, perfected, by prayer. The gospel moves with slow and timid pace when the saints are not at their prayers early and late and long.—E.M. Bounds 

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 

God’s children should pray. They should cry day and night to Him. God hears every one of your cries in the busy hour of the daytime and in the lonely watches of the night. – Robert Murray McCheyne 

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 

“Men ought always to pray, and not faint.” – Bible, Luke 18:1 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 

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 

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 

We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties. – Oswald Chambers 

O 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 

Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed.The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. — James 5:16, -The Holy Bible 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 

Prayer is repeating the victor’s name (Jesus) into the ears of Satan and insisting on his retreat. –- S. D. Gordon Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. – James 4:7  He who knows how to overcome with God in prayer has heaven and earth at his disposal. – C. S. Spurgeon 

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. An increase of secret prayer with ministers will be the sure harbinger of blessing.– Andrew Murray 

A life growing in its purity and devotion will be a more prayerful life. – E. M. Bounds 

The man who has gotten God’s word in the prayer closet neither seeks nor expects encouragement from men for the delivery of that word. the Spirit Himself bears witness of the approval. – Leonard Ravenhill 

“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; as is manifest by Ezek. 36, 37, together with the context. And it is revealed that when God is about to accomplish great things for His Church, He will begin by remarkably pouring out the spirit of grace and supplication (Zach. 12:10). …I should think the people of God in this land would be in the way of their duty to do three times as much fasting and prayer as they do” -Jonathan Edwards 

Whether we think of, or speak to, God, whether we act or suffer for him, all is prayer, when we have no other object than his love, and the desire of pleasing him. - John Wesley 

When Christians are united, and praying as they ought, God opens the windows of heaven, and pours out His blessing till there is not room to receive it (Read Mal. 3:10). Prayer is the vital breath of the Christian; not the thing that makes him alive, but the evidence that he is alive. - Oswald Chambers 

Never say you will pray about a thing; pray about it. -Oswald Chambers

Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud, and He shall hear me. – David, Psalm 55:17 

Pray without ceasing.- 1Thessalonians 5:17

God forbid that I should sin against the Lord in ceasing to pray for you. – Samuel, from 1Samuel 12:23 

Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.-Jer. 33:3 

“Almighty God, you have given us grace at this time with one accord to make our common supplication to you; and you have promised through your well-beloved Son that when two or three are gathered together in his Name you will be in the midst of them: Fulfill now, O Lord, our desires and petitions as may be best for us; granting us in this world knowledge of your truth, and in the age to come life everlasting. Amen.”    -John Chrysostom 

“True prayer is God the Holy Spirit talking to God the Father in the name of God the Son, and the believer’s heart is the prayer-room.”-  Samuel M. Zemer

Prayer is the soul in paraphrase, and the heart in pilgrimage.-George Herbert 

Let there always be quiet, dark churches in which people can take refuge…houses of God filled with His silent presence.  There, even when they do not know how to pray, at least they can be still and breathe easily.-Thomas Merton 

Conversing with Jesus…Imagine you see Jesus sitting close to you. In doing this you are putting your imagination at the service of your faith. Jesus isn’t here in the way you are imagining him, but he certainly is here, and your imagination helps to make you aware of this. Now, speak to Jesus …. if no one is around, speak out in a soft voice …. Listen to what Jesus says to you in reply, or what you imagine him to say …. That is the difference between thinking and praying. When we think, we generally talk to ourselves. When we pray, we talk to God.- (Anthony de Mello SJ, Sadhana ps 78-79)  

Lord Jesus, come yourself, and dwell with us, be human as we are, and overcome what overwhelms us. Come into the midst of my evil, come close to my unfaithfulness. Share my sin, which I hate and which I cannot leave. Be my brother, Thou Holy God. Be my brother in the kingdom of evil and suffering and death. Come with me in my death, come with me in my suffering, come with me as I struggle with evil. And make me holy and pure, despite my sin and death.-Dietrich Bonhoeffer 

Prayer means lovingly contemplating the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, allowing our hearts to be enkindled to praise and adore the love and omnipotence of the most blessed Trinity -M. Basilea Schlink 

When we pray it is far more important to pray with a sense of the greatness of God than with a sense of the greatness of the problem. -Evangeline Blood 

Prayer for many is like a foreign land.  When we go there, we go as tourists.  Like most tourists, we feel uncomfortable and out of place.  Like most tourist, we therefore move on before too long and go somewhere else.  -Robert McAfee Brown 

The best prayers have often more groans than words  -John Bunyan 

The real business of your life as a saved soul is intercessory prayer. -Oswald Chambers 

And Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon his knees -William Cowper 

Keep praying, but be thankful that God’s answers are wiser than your prayers -William Culbertson 

Prayer is opening ourselves to God so that He can open us to others -Lois Evely 

We are working with God to determine the future!  Certain things will happen in history if we pray rightly.  We are to change the world by prayers. -Richard Foster

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening -Matthew Henry 

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 your ideas. -Frank Laubach 

There is nothing that makes us love a man so much as praying for him -William Law 

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.  My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day-Abraham Lincoln 

The value in persistent prayer is not that he will hear us…but that we will finally hear him-William McGillIn

the spiritual life there are not tricks and no short cuts…Once cannot begin to face the real difficulties of the life of prayer and meditation unless one is first perfectly content to be a beginner and really experience oneself as one who knows little or nothing…-Thomas Merton 

Prayer means yearning for the simple presence of God, for a personal understanding of his word, for knowledge of his will and for capacity to hear and obey him. -Thomas Merton 

Id rather be able to pray than be a great preacher; Jesus Christ never taught his disciples how to preach but only how to pray.  Boy do we  have this messed up in modern evangelism and ministry…God help us to learn from this profound truth!  -D.L. Moody 

One of the main reasons many of God’s children don’t have a significant prayer life is not so much that we don’t want to, but that we don’t plan to…we get up day after day and realize that significant times of prayer should be part of our life, but nothing is ever ready.  We don’t know where to go.  Nothing has been planned.  No time.  No place.  No procedure…if you want renewal in your life of prayer you must plan to see it -John Piper 

Pray to God but keep rowing to the shore-Russian Proverb 

We cannot all argue, but we can all pray; we cannot all be leaders, but we can all be pleaders; we cannot all be mighty in rhetoric, but we can all be prevalent in prayer.  I would sooner see you eloquent with God than with men-Charles Spurgeon 

If Christ himself needed to retire from time to time to the mountain-top to pray, lesser men need not be ashamed to acknowledge that necessity.-B.H. Streeter 

If I were called upon to state in a few words the essence of everything I was trying to say both as a novelist and as a preacher, it would be something like this:  Listen to your life.  See it for the fathomless mystery it is.  In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.” -Fredrick Beuchner  

Whatever we beg of God, let us also work for it -Jeremy Taylor 

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 

As a man prays, so is he.-A.W. Tozer 

We must not conceive of prayer as an overcoming of God’s reluctance, but as a laying hold of his highest willingness. -Richard Chenevix   

Too many people pray only for emergency rations rather than asking God for daily bread. -unknown 

Prayer means talking over with Jesus everything that happens from morning until night.-M. Basilea Schlink 

Do not lose yourself in your everyday work and activities.  Rather, lose yourself in God.  When you are doing work, let your innermost heart be centered on Him.  Live in His presence and abide in Him.  Then your work will follow you into eternity, and you will reap a rich harvest.-M. Basilea Schlink 

Prayer means rushing to the Father as His child.  It means asking and receiving, loving and thanking Him.  -M. Basilea Schlink