61 The man who has gotten God's word in the prayer closet neither seeks nor expects encouragement from men for the delivery of that word. the Spirit Himself bears witness of the approval. -- Leonard Ravenhill
62 He only can truly pray who is all aglow for holiness, for God, and for heaven. E. M. Bounds
63 The stream of praying cannot rise higher than the fountain of living. -- E. M. Bounds
64 Nothing you can do will benefit you more than prayer. -- Paul Y. Cho
65. When God intends great mercy for His people, the first thing He does is set them a-praying. - Matthew Henry
66. "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; as is manifest by Ezek. 36, 37, together with the context. And it is revealed that when God is about to accomplish great things for His Church, He will begin by remarkably pouring out the spirit of grace and supplication (Zach. 12:10). ...I should think the people of God in this land would be in the way of their duty to do three times as much fasting and prayer as they do" Jonathan Edwards, from his Thoughts on Revival, Part 5.
67. God's command to "pray without ceasing" is founded on the necessity we have of his grace to preserve the life of God in the soul, which can no more subsist one moment without it, than the body can without air. - John Wesley
68. Whether we think of, or speak to, God, whether we act or suffer for him, all is prayer, when we have no other object than his love, and the desire of pleasing him. - John Wesley
69. All that a Christian does, even in eating and sleeping, is prayer, when it is done in simplicity, according to the order of God, without either adding to or diminishing from it by His choice. - John Wesley
70. Prayer continues in the desire of the heart, though the understanding be employed on outward things. - John Wesley
71. In souls filled with love, the desire to please God is continual prayer. - John Wesley
73. God only requires of his adult children, that their hearts be truly purified, and that they offer him continually the wishes and vows that naturally spring from perfect love. For these desires, being the genuine fruits of love, are the most perfect prayers that can spring from it. - John Wesley
74. To pray with bitterness toward fellowmen nullifies hours on our knees.- Dick Eastman
75. Prayer is the highest order of business, for it links a powerless human to the creative force of God's sovereign power.- Selected
76. The price of prayerlessness far exceeds the price of prayer.- Selected
77. TAKE TIME TO PRAY
78. The prayer of faith is the only power in the universe to which the Great Jehovah yields. Prayer is the sovereign remedy.- Robert Hall
79. If the spirit of prayer departs, it is a sure indication of a backslidden heart, for while the first love of a Christian continues he is sure to be drawn by the Holy Spirit to wrestle much in prayer. -Charles G. Finney, in Revival Lectures
80. To pray as a duty and as if obliging God by our prayer, is quite ridiculous, and is certain indication of a backslidden heart.- Charles G. Finney
81. Probably in the Day of Judgment it will be found that nothing is ever done by the truth, used ever so zealously, unless there is a spirit of prayer somewhere in connection with the presentation of truth.- Charles G. Finney
82. Prevailing , or effectual prayer, is that prayer which attains the blessing that it seeks. - Charles G. Finney
83. When Christians are united, and praying as they ought, God opens the windows of heaven, and pours out His blessing till there is not room to receive it (Read Mal. 3:10).
84. Prayer is the vital breath of the Christian; not the thing that makes him alive, but the evidence that he is alive. - Oswald Chambers
85. A prayer-meeting is an index to the state of religion in a Church. - Charles G. Finney
86. Never say you will pray about a thing; pray about it. -Oswald Chambers
87. Nothing is clearer than that prayer has its only worth and significance in the great fact that God hears and answers prayer. -E. M. Bounds
88. Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud, and He shall hear me. - David, Psalm 55:17
89. Those who know God the best are the richest and most powerful in prayer. Little acquaintance with God, and strangeness and coldness to Him, make prayer a rare and feeble thing. - E. M. Bounds
90. ...The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.- James 5:16b
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