Prayer is my chief work, and it is by means of it that I carry on the rest.
– Thomas Hooker –
Prayer
Prayer is absolutely necessary – Edward Payson
Prayer is the first thing, the second thing, the third thing necessary to a minister. Pray, then, my dear brother; pray, pray, pray.
– Edward Payson –
If you do not pray … – Robert Murray McCheyne
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 extraordinary prayers of God’s people – Jonathan Edwards
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 –
Pray with all your might – William Booth
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 –
Find God each morning – John Bunyan
He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find him the rest of the day.
– John Bunyan –
One thing that exceeds all the pleasures and delights of the world – David Brainerd
Oh! One hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and delights of this lower world.
– David Brainerd –
Pray and Pray and Pray – RA Torrey
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 –
Heart and Words in Prayer – John Bunyan
In prayer it is better to have a heart with without words, than words without a heart.
– John Bunyan –