O Lord, above all things, make me a blessing to my comrades. I am not anxious for a place or name, and if Thou canst better use me to this end at the rear than at the front, I shall rejoice. But let me be a burning and shining light to my comrades!
– Samuel Brengle –
Study universal holiness of life. Your whole usefulness depends on this, for your sermons last but an hour or two; your life preaches all the week. If Satan can only make a covetous minister a lover of praise, of pleasure, of good eating, he has ruined your ministry. Give yourself to prayer, and get your texts, your thoughts, your words from God. Luther spent his best three hours in prayer.
– Robert Murray M’Cheyne –
Can any deny that in the modern church setup the main cause of anxiety is money? Yet that which tries the modern churches the most, troubled the New Testament Church the least. Our accent is on paying; theirs was on praying. When we have paid, the place is taken; when they had prayed, the place was shaken!
– Leonard Ravenhill –
Prayer is my chief work, and it is by means of it that I carry on the rest.
– Thomas Hooker –
Prayerlessness is a sin.
– Corrie ten Boom –
Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon his knees.
– William Cowper –
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 –
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 –
Until we reach for the IMPOSSIBLE through fervent, faith-filled
prayer, we will NEVER fulfill our created purpose!
– David Smithers –