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.
– Martyn Lloyd-Jones –
An earthbound, earth-satisfied spirit cannot pray. In such a heart, the flame of spiritual desire is either gone out or smoldering in faintest glow. The wings of its faith are clipped, its eyes are filmed, its tongue silenced. But they, who in unswerving faith and unceasing prayer, wait continually upon the Lord, do renew their strength, do mount up with wings as eagles, do run, and are not weary, do walk, and not faint.
– EM Bounds –
I have prayed for new men, fiery, reckless men, possessed of uncontrollably youthful passion – these lit by the Spirit of God.
I have prayed for new words, explosive, direct, simple words. I have prayed for new miracles. Explaining old miracles will not do. If God is to be known as the God who does wonders in heaven and earth, then God must produce for this generation. Lord, fill preachers and preaching with Thy power. How long dare we go on without tears, without moral passions, hatred and love? Not long, I pray, Lord Jesus, not long …
– Jim Elliot –
A revival of real praying would produce a spiritual revolution.
– EM Bounds –
See to it that we pray more than we preach, and we will never preach ourselves out.
– AW Tozer –
Prayer is the preacher’s mightiest weapon.
– EM Bounds –
from Power Through Prayer
The devil smiles when we are up to our ears in work, but he trembles when we pray.
– Corrie ten Boom –
from Not Good If Detached
Prayer should be the means by which I, at all times, receive all that I need, and, for this reason, be my daily refuge, my daily consolation, my daily joy, my source of rich and inexhaustible joy in life.
– O. Hallesby –
from Prayer
Nights of prayer to God are followed by days of power with men.
– RA Torrey –
from How to Pray