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 … when God is about to accomplish great things for His Church, He will begin by remarkably pouring out the spirit of grace and supplication.
– Jonathan Edwards –
You must pray will all your might. That does not mean saying your prayers, or sitting gazing about in church or chapel with eyes wide open while someone else says them for you. It means fervent, effectual, untiring wrestling with God. [Be sure that with] this kind of prayer, the devil and the world and your own indolent, unbelieving nature will oppose.
– William Booth –
He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find him the rest of the day.
– John Bunyan –
Oh! One hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and delights of this lower world.
– David Brainerd –
Do not just begin to pray and pray a little while and throw up your hands and quit; but pray and pray and pray until God bends the heavens and comes down.
– RA Torrey –
In prayer it is better to have a heart with without words, than words without a heart.
– John Bunyan –
Paul was a leader by appointment and by universal recognition and acceptance. He had many mighty forces in this ministry. His conversion, so conspicuous and radical was a great force, a perfect magazine of aggressive and defensive warfare. His call to the apostleship was clear, luminous and convincing. But these forces were not the divinest energies which brought forth the largest results to his ministry. Paul’s course was more distinctly shaped and his career rendered more powerfully successful by prayer than by any other force.
– EM Bounds –
If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies. Yet distance makes not difference. He is praying for me.
– Robert Murray M’Cheyne –
Christ went more willingly to the cross than we do to the throne of grace.
– Thomas Watson –