As the apostle says to Timothy, so also he says to everyone, “Give yourself to reading.” He who will not use the thoughts of other men’s brains proves that he has no brains of his own. You need to read. Renounce as much as you will all light literature, but study as much as possible sound theological works, especially the Puritanic writers, and expositions of the Bible. The best way for you to spend your leisure is to be either reading or praying.
– Charles Spurgeon –
The devil smiles when we make plans. He laughs when we get too busy. But he trembles when we pray especially when we pray together.
– Corrie ten Boom –
from He Cares For You
We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power.
– RA Torrey –
Oh! men and brethren, what would this heart feel if I could but believe that there were some among you who would go home and pray for a revival. Men whose faith is large enough, and their love fiery enough to lead them from this moment to exercise unceasing intercessions that God would appear among us and do wondrous things here, as in the times of former generations.
– Charles Spurgeon –
Beloved, there are heights in experimental knowledge of the things of God that the eagles discerning eye and philosophical thought have never seen. God alone can take us there, but the chariot in which He takes us up and the fiery steeds that pull the chariot, are prevailing prayers.
– Charles Spurgeon –
Fire is the motivating power in prayer. This holy fervent flame in the soul awakens the interest of heaven, attracts God’s attention, and places at the disposal of those who exercise it, the inexhaustible riches of divine grace.
– EM Bounds –
Prayer is the highest activity of the human soul, and therefore it is at the same time the ultimate test of a man’s true spiritual condition (there is nothing so much as prayer life that tells the truth about us as Christian people.) Everything we do in the Christian life is easier than prayer.
– D. Martin Lloyd-Jones –
Whenever you cannot understand a text, open your Bible, bend your knee, and pray over that text; and if it does not split into atoms and open itself, try again.
– Charles Spurgeon –
Discernment is God’s call to intercession, never to faultfinding.
– Corrie ten Boom –