- One sin allowed in the life wrecks at once our usefulness and our joy, and robs prayer of its power.
- Our Savior’s call to prayer is simply a clarion call to holiness. Be ye holy! for without holiness no man can see God, and prayer cannot be efficacious.
- Our spirituality and our fruitfulness are always in proportion to the reality of our prayers.
- Praise and thanksgiving not only open the gates of heaven for me to approach God, but also prepare a way for God to bless me.
- Pray ye. Is an invitation to be accepted rather than a command to be obeyed.
- Prayer is an offering up of our desires unto God for things agreeable to His will, in the name of Christ, with confession of our sins and thankful acknowledgment of His mercies.
- Prayer is measured, not by time, but by intensity.
- Prayer is not given us as a burden to be borne, or an irksome duty to fulfill, but to be a joy and power to which there is no limit.
- Prayer is the key, and faith both turns the key and opens the door, and claims the blessing.
- Prayer meets with obstacles, which must be prayed away. That is what men mean when they talk about praying through.
- Prayer, real prayer, is the noblest, the sublimest, the most stupendous act that any creature of God can perform.
- Real faith not only believes that God can, but that He does answer prayer.
- Satan laughs at our toiling, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.
- Satan’s chief way of hindering us is to try to fill our minds with the thought of our needs, so that they shall not be occupied with thoughts of God, our loving Father, to Whom we pray.
- Sometimes He delays so that greater glory may be brought to Himself.
- The greatest thing we can do for God or for man is to pray.
- The Lord Jesus makes intercession for us (Hebrews 7:25), and God cannot say Him Nay.
- The more we have of God’s glory, the less shall we seek His gifts.
- The most amazing feature of that life as it is looked back upon will be its prayerlessness.
- The oil of the Holy Spirit will never cease to flow so long as there are empty vessels to receive it.
- The secret of all failure is our failure in secret prayer.
- There is no greater test to spirituality than prayer. The man who tries to pray quickly discovers just where he stands in God’s sight.
- There is nothing the devil dreads so much as prayer?
- Thus our Lord gives us power of attorney over His kingdom, the kingdom of heaven, if only we fulfill the condition of abiding in Him.
- To pray in His name is to pray in His character, as His representative sent by Him: it is to pray by His Spirit and according to His will.
- Truly he who prays puts, not God, but his own spiritual life to the test!
- Unless the heart is right the prayer must be wrong.
- Unless we are living the Victorious Life we cannot truly pray in the name of Christ, and our prayer-life must of necessity be feeble, fitful and oft-times unfruitful.
- We are never so high as when we are on our knees.
- We cannot be men of prevailing prayer unless we study God’s Word to find out His will for us.
- We dishonor God by distrusting Him!
- We do not know much about prayer, but surely this need not prevent us from praying!
- We feel sure that the weakness in the spiritual life of many churches is to be traced to an inefficient prayer-meeting, or the absence of meetings for prayer….. Can we not make the weekly prayer-meeting a live thing and a living force?
- We must bear in mind that mere resolutions to take more time for prayer and to conquer reluctance to pray will not prove lastingly effective unless there is a wholehearted and absolute surrender to the Lord Jesus Christ.
- We shall have our Mount of Transfiguration when prayer has its rightful place in our lives.
- What is prayer? It is a sign of spiritual life.
- When we can declare, with St. John, Yea, and our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ (I John 1:3), people will say the same of us: They have been with Jesus!
- When we confess that we never get answers to our prayers, we are condemning not God, or His promises, or the power of prayer, but ourselves.
- With God’s saints in all ages: nights of prayer with God have been followed by days of power with men.
- Yet prayer is the key which unlocks the door of God’s treasure-house.
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