"Prayer is the vital breath of the Christian; not the thing that makes him alive, but the evidence that he is alive." - Oswald Chambers

"For a successful season of prayer, the best beginning is confession." - Charles Spurgeon

"The devil is in constant conspiracy against a preacher who really prays, for it has been said that what a minister is in his prayer closet is what he is, no more, no less." - Vance Havner

"The measure of any Christian is his prayer life." - Vance Havner

"The thermometer of a church is its prayer meeting." - Vance Havner

"The purpose of prayer is not to inform God of our needs, but to invite Him to rule our lives." - Clarence Bauman

"We are all too busy to use the mightiest weapon God has given us - prayer!" - J. Sidlow Baxter

"God's promises lie like giant corpses without life, only for decay and dust, unless men appropriate those promises by earnest and prevailing prayer." - E. M. Bounds

"A day without prayer is a boast against God." - Owen Carr

"What isn't won in prayer first, is never won at all." - Malcolm Cook

"God has editing rights over our prayers."' - Stephen Crotts

"Those who pray most in private pray best in public." - R. Edward Davenport

"Many people pray as if God were a Tylenol. They only come to God with their aches and pains, never with their adoration and praise." - Michael Catt

"True prayer always receives what it asks for - or something better." - Byron Edwards

"You can do more than pray - but only after you have prayed." - S. D. Gordon

"Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration its sanctuary, the presence and vision and enjoyment of God its bread and wine." - C. S. Lewis

"The less I pray, the harder it gets; the more I pray, the better it goes." - Martin Luther

"The best prayers have often more groans than words." - John Bunyan

"I am convinced that nothing in Christianity is so rarely attained as a praying heart." - Charles Finney

"Self-examination is the high road to prayer." - D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

"When you kneel in prayer, don't give God orders, just report to your Commander in Chief for duty." - Michael Catt

"Prayer is not only our approach to God, but also his approach to us." - E. F. Hallock

"Prayer is not monologue but dialogue. God's voice in response to mine is its most essential part." - Andrew Murray

"True prayer is born out of brokenness." - Frances Roberts

"Many a person is praying for rain with his tub the wrong side up." - Sam Jones

"I'd rather be able to pray than be a great preacher; Jesus Christ never taught his disciples how to preach, but only how to pray." - D. L. Moody

"Books on prayer are good, but not good enough. As books on cooking are good but hopeless unless there is food to work on, so with prayer. One can read a library of prayer books and not be one whit more powerful in prayer. We must learn to pray, and we must pray to learn to pray." - Leonard Ravenhill

"Prayer crowns God with the honor and glory due to His name." - Thomas Benton Brooks

"Real prayer is taking His Word into the Throne Room and letting His words speak through our lips to Him on the throne, calling His attention to His own promises." - E. W. Kenyon

"Prayer is not eloquence but earnestness." - Hannah More

"There are particular things about which we ought to pray, for which we are commanded to pray; for all the saints, for the Word of God, for the Christian ministry, for all souls." - G. Campbell Morgan

"There is nothing that makes us love a man as much as praying for him." - William Law

"Intercession is simply love at prayer." - Henrietta C. Mears

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