Prayer is the nearest approach to God and the highest enjoyment of Him that we are capable of in this life.
– William Law –
Prayer
Desperate times demand desperate prayer – Chuck Smith
Today, we are living in desperate times. Yet, the Church is not desperate before God in prayer.
– Chuck Smith –
Our prayer is His delight – JC Ryle
There was an officer in the city of Rome who was appointed to have his doors always open, in order to receive any Roman citizen who applied to him for help. Just so the ear of the Lord Jesus is ever open to the cry of all who want mercy and grace. It is His office to help them. Their prayer is His delight. Think of this. Is not this encouragement?
– JC Ryle –
from A Call to Prayer
Jealously Protecting the Church – AW Tozer
The church that is not jealously protected by mighty intercession and sacrificial labors will before long become the abode of every evil bird and the hiding place for unsuspected corruption. The creeping wilderness will soon take over that church that trusts in its own strength and forgets to watch and pray.
– AW Tozer –
Public and Private Prayer – Leonard Ravenhill
E.M. Bounds is right in saying that short, powerful public prayers are the outcome of long, secret intercession.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
Secret of Praying – Leonard Ravenhill
The secret of praying is praying in secret.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
Freedom to pray – John Calvin
God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us—as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.
– John Calvin –
Prayerless, Christless Soul – Charles Spurgeon
A prayerless soul is a Christless soul. Prayer is the lisping of the believing infant, the shout of the fighting believer, the requiem of the dying saint falling asleep in Jesus. It is the breath, the watchword, the comfort, the strength, the honour of a Christian.
– Charles Spurgeon –
Prayer yields more than work – Andrew Murray
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 –
from The Ministry of Intercession